Noah Himmelstein is a New York based theatre director.
His recent work includes the off-Broadway premieres of Karen Hartman's play The Lucky Star (59e59) and Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's musical Los Otros (A.R.T./New York); 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); and Songs from the Holocaust at Carnegie Hall.
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 and 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. He is currently Associate Artistic Director of Baltimore's Everyman Theatre. Noah is a graduate of Emerson College.
upcoming/in development:
Leap by Andrew Lippa
The Lucky Star by Karen Hartman
When Playwrights Kill by Matthew Lombardo
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, Everyman Theatre (spring 2024)