Samuel Parker Productions makes ambitious theatre grounded in deep humanity and lifted by theatrical imagination—world premiere musicals, comedies, and reinvented classics that become charged spaces where emotion and spectacle collide. Each production is developed under the direction of Noah Himmelstein, in close collaboration with writers, composers, designers, and ensembles.
Noah Himmelstein is a director of new plays, musicals, and classical works, blending dreamlike theatricality with emotional precision, ambitious storytelling, and buoyant wit. NY: Conversations with Mother (with Caroline Aaron and Matt Doyle); Andrew Lippa’s I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center with Kristin Chenoweth, also San Francisco, LA, Denver, DC, Princeton) Michael John LaChiusa’s Los Otros; The Lucky Star; The Costume. Regional: the world premieres of When Playwrights Kill (Huntington with Beth Leavel); Jonathan Tolins’s The Forgotten Woman (Bay Street with Ashlie Atkinson and Darren Goldstein); Rooted (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Lippa’s I Am Anne Hutchinson (Strathmore with Chenoweth); also Everything is Wonderful (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Positions 1956 (Urban Arias); Loving Leo (Weston Playhouse); and the world premiere of the musical Bleeding Love (Fredericia Theater, Denmark).
As Associate Artistic Director of Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, his productions included an award winning age-blind A Midsummer Night's Dream and the highest grossing productions in their history: his alternate version of And Then There Were None and The Book of Joseph as well as An Inspector Calls, The Skin of Our Teeth and Los Otros. For the New York Philharmonic, he has directed for the Young People’s Concerts series and Lincoln Center American Songbook. As associate/assistant director, he’s had the joy of collaborating with James Lapine, Bartlett Sher, John Rando and Victoria Clark.
In 2026, Noah launched Samuel Parker Productions with his cousin Josh Goldsmith, after their great-grandfather, a self made first generation American entrepreneur. They are currently collaborating on musicals by Andrew Lippa, Oliver Houser and Matthew Puckett as well as plays by Chelsea Marcantel and Karen Hartman.
Noah is a graduate of Emerson College.
Josh Goldsmith is a philanthropist who makes culturally impactful investments. Born in Baltimore and raised in Aspen, Colorado, he graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Art History.
Josh is a Trustee, and Vice President for Arts and Culture, of the Baltimore-based Goldsmith Family Foundation, and has lived in New York City for 20 years.
I Am Harvey Milk
Andrew Lippa and Ensemble
Music Center of Strathmore
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Bleeding Love
Thomas Jensen, Katrine Nørgaard, Kim Leprévost, Maria Skuladottir, Lena Bakken Høyem, and Lars Mølsted
Fredericia Teater, Denmark
The Forgotten Woman
Mark Junek, Ashlie Atkinson, Robert Stanton, Darren Goldstein
Bay Street Theatre
I Am Anne Hutchinson
Kristin Chenoweth and Ensemble
Music Center of Strathmore
The Lucky Star
Steven Skybell, Skye Alyssa Friedman, Dale Soules, Eva Kaminsky, Mike Shapiro, Nina Hellman, Danny Gavigan, Alexa Niziak, Alexandra Silber
59e59 Theaters, off-Broadway
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
The Skin of Our Teeth
Bruce Randolph Nelson, Beth Hylton, Deidre Staples, Zach Powell, Jefferson A. Russell, Felicia Curry, Helen Hedman
Everyman Theatre
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Los Otros
Caesar Samayoa and Luba Mason
A.R.T./New York, Off-Broadway
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Natalya Rathnam, Bruce Randolph Nelson, Jefferson A. Russell and Deborah Hazlett
Everyman Theatre
Everything is Wonderful
William Zielinski, J. Hernandez, Stephanie Hodge, Katie Kleiger, Blair Sams
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Conversations With Mother
Matt Doyle and Caroline Aaron
Theatre 555, Off-Broadway
And Then There Were None
Full company
Everyman Theatre
When Playwrights Kill
Beth Leavel and Matt Doyle
Huntington Theatre
Start a conversation.
Contact