Noah Himmelstein is a New York based theatre director.
Recent work includes his acclaimed age blind take on A Midsummer Night's Dream at Baltimore's Everyman Theatre, the New York premieres of Karen Hartman's play The Lucky Star and Michael John LaChiusa's musical Los Otros (both off-Broadway); the world premiere of Deborah Zoe Laufer's comedy Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Chelsea Marcantel's Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth (Everyman Theatre); Andrew Lippa's I Am Harvey Milk (The Princeton Festival).
Current projects include developing Andrew Lippa's new musical, Leap and Karen Hartman's The Lucky Star. Additional directing work: the world premieres of Jonathan Tolins's The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street Theatre); Daniel Zaitchik's The Costume (Inner Voices, off-broadway); I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center and Strathmore with Kristin Chenoweth (also I Am Anne Hutchinson); LA's Disney Hall, Nourse Theatre in San Francisco, Bellco Center in Denver); JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls; Karen Hartman's The Book of Joseph, Heather McDonald's An Almost Holy Picture, Los Otros at Everyman; Harris Doran, Jason Schafer and Art Bacon's musical Bleeding Love at the Fredericia Theatre in Denmark; the world premiere of Michael Korie and Conrad Cummings's opera Positions 1956 (Urban Arias); Sara Cooper's Things I Left on Long Island (NY Fringe) and Loving Leo (Weston Playhouse, music by Zach Redler); the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts: The Harlem Renaissance and projects with Lincoln Center American Songbook, American Opera Projects and the Goodspeed New Works Festival.
In 2022, he directed his first film, ShirtTugger, created with Noah Zachary, which has played several national film festivals. As an associate and assistant director, he's worked on plays and musicals with Lincoln Center Theater, City Center Encores! and Second Stage. Noah is a graduate of Emerson College.
UPCOMING
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Everyman Theatre
Dec 1-Jan 5 2025
CONVERSATIONS WITH MOTHER
Theatre 555
Feb 7-May 7 2025
