Artist Profile
H. Adam Harris is a director with a focus on heart-forward, textually rigorous, imaginative productions of classics and new work. His directing credits include Redwood by Brittney K. Allen and the world premiere of 5 by JuCoby Johnson at The Jungle Theater; Snow White by Greg Banks at South Coast Repertory; and Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman and the world premiere of How It’s Gon’ Be by JuCoby Johnson with Underdog Theatre Company. In addition to working with his primary collaborator, JuCoby Johnson, H. Adam has collaborated with playwrights Xavier Clark, June Carryl, Alayna Jacqueline, Katie Ka Vang, and Brian Grandison. He has directed readings and development workshops with IAMA Theater Company’s Emerging Writers and New Works Festivals, as well as with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Black Theater, Theater Mu, Theater Latte Da, History Theater, and Exposed Brick Theater. H. Adam has also worked as an assistant director to Patricia McGregor (Parchman Hour, Guthrie Theater) and Lauren Keating (A Christmas Carol, Guthrie Theater) and is the directing consultant and acting coach for theatrical dance company ShapeShift. Next up, he will direct the world premiere of Heritage by JuCoby Johnson with North Carolina Black Rep at the International Black Theatre Festival.
H. Adam is currently the Artistic & Audience Engagement Associate at South Coast Repertory and the Board Chair of Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company. Previously, he was the Engagement Associate at the Playwrights’ Center and the Associate Director of Programming at Penumbra Theatre Company.
As an actor, H. Adam has worked onstage with the Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Children’s Theatre Company, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Penumbra Theatre Company, New Conservatory Theater Center, Pillsbury House Theatre, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As an educator and teaching artist, H. Adam has taught over 50 classes with the Guthrie Theater and has also worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory. His directing work with universities and high schools includes Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins with the University of Minnesota, Too Heavy for Your Pocket by Mansa Ra with Normandale Community College, Blood at the Root by Dominique Morriseau and Inherit the Wind with the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists.
As an equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging consultant, H. Adam often works at the intersection of theatre, education, anti-racist practices, and community care. He specializes in drawing connections between systems and humanity. Whether it’s a keynote, workshop, moderated conversation, or one-on-one consulting session, he helps participants challenge their assumptions and commit to creating a compassionate community in their work and daily lives. His unique approach to facilitation is joy-centered, incisively thorough, welcomes vulnerability, and embraces his personal definition of anti-racism: the process of cultivating and sustaining joy for all bodies and identities in as many spaces as possible.