H. Adam Harris is a director focused on heart-forward, textually rigorous, and imaginative productions of both classics and new work. His directing credits include the world premieres of Heritage by JuCoby Johnson with NC Black Rep and 5 by JuCoby Johnson at the Jungle Theater. Additional work includes: The Incredible Book Eating Boy and Snow White (South Coast Repertory), Redwood (Jungle Theater), Tick, Tick…Boom (Chance Theater) and Luna Gale (Underdog Theatre Company). H. Adam has directed readings and development workshops with IAMA Theater Company’s Emerging Writers and New Works Festivals, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Inge Festival, National Black Theater, Theater Mu, Theater Latté Da, and Chance Theater. He is the directing consultant and acting coach for the theatrical dance company SHAPESHIFT.

Next, he will direct Romeo & Juliet at the Great River Shakespeare Festival. And a staged reading of JuCoby Johnson’s latest work, The Red Man, with South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival.

H. Adam is the Artistic & Audience Engagement Associate at South Coast Repertory and serves as Board Co-Chair of Ten Thousand Things Theatre Company. He previously worked as the Engagement Associate at the Playwrights’ Center and as the Associate Director of Programming at Penumbra Theatre Company.

As an actor, H. Adam has performed 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 a teaching artist, he taught over 50 classes at the Guthrie Theater and has taught with YoungArts, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Children’s Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory.

As a consultant, H. Adam frequently operates at the intersection of theatre, education, anti-racist practices, and community care. As a facilitator, he has a proven ability to guide individuals through challenging conversations to effect cultural or systemic change. Whether delivering a keynote, leading a workshop, moderating a discussion, or providing one-on-one consulting, he encourages participants to question their assumptions and commit to fostering a compassionate community in their work and daily lives. His distinctive approach to facilitation is joy-centered, incisively thorough, and embraces vulnerability. It also embodies his definition of anti-racism: the ongoing process of cultivating and sustaining joy for all bodies and identities in as many spaces as possible.