H. Adam Harris is a director who focuses on heart-forward, textually rigorous, and imaginative productions of 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: Snow White by Greg Banks (South Coast Repertory), Redwood by Brittney K. Allen (Jungle Theater), and Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman (Underdog Theatre Company). H. Adam has also directed readings and development workshops with IAMA Theater Company’s Emerging Writers and New Works Festivals, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Black Theater, Theater Mu, Theater Latte Da, and Chance Theater. He is the directing consultant and acting coach for the theatrical dance company SHAPESHIFT.

Next up, he will direct Tick, Tick…Boom with Book, Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson and Script Consultation by David Auburn at Chance Theater. The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Madhuri Shekar (Book), Christian Magby (Music), and Christian Albright (Lyrics) at South Coast Repertory. And Romeo & Juliet at Great River Shakespeare Festival.

H. Adam is the Artistic & Audience Engagement Associate at South Coast Repertory and Board Co-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 at the Guthrie Theater. He has also taught 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.