b'About the ArtistsI AM HARVEY MILKAndrew Lippa (words/music/conductor) is an award-winning artist whose work spans the worlds of theater, film, television, and the concert stage. His musicals include The Addams Family; Big Fish; The Wild Party; new songs for Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown; A Little Princess; and John & Jen. In addition to I Am Harvey Milk, his concert works include I Am Anne Hutchinson; Unbreakable; a world-premiere for pianist Lang Lang titled Rising Tide; as well as his hit song for Kristin Chenoweth in Disneys Descendants titled Evil Like Me (gold record) and songs for Rene Fleming, Idina Menzel, Vanessa Williams, and others. He wrote the score for Aaron Sorkins The Farnsworth Invention and has conducted the San Francisco, Chicago, and Cincinnati Symphony orchestras. New collaborations include pieces with Adam Gopnik, Bob Martin, Roxane Gay, and an original film musical in development. He serves as the president of the board of The Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF.org), is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and is an ordained Interfaith minister.AndrewLippa.comNoah Himmelstein (Director) is a theatre and opera director whose work since returning from the pandemic includes the off-Broadway premieres of Michael John LaChiusasLos Otros(A.R.T./New York) and Karen HartmansThe Lucky Star(59e59); the world premiere ofRooted(Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, by Deborah Zoe Laufer); Thornton WildersThe Skin of Our Teeth(Everyman Theatre); andSongs from the Holocaustat Carnegie Hall.Additionaldirecting:Everything is Wonderful(Philadelphia Theatre Co, by Chelsea Marcantel);The Costume(Inner Voices, by Daniel Zaitchik);The Forgotten Woman(Bay Street Theatre, world premiere by Jonathan Tolins);I Am Harvey MilkandI Am Anne Hutchinson(Lincoln Center, Strathmore, LAs Disney Hall, Denver & San Francisco);The Book of Joseph;LosOtros;An Inspector Calls(Everyman Theatre, also Associate Artistic Director);Bleeding Love(Fredericia Theatre, Denmark);Positions 1956(Urban Arias, world premiere by Michael Korie and Conrad Cummings);Loving Leo(Weston Playhouse). New York Philharmonic:Young Peoples Concerts: The Harlem Renaissance, Lincoln Center American Songbook:The Songs of Scott Frankel & Michael Korie,American Opera Projects. Noah is a graduate of Emerson College.noahmimmelstein.comAdam Kantor (Harvey Milk) recently completed a critically-acclaimed run of The Inheritance at The Geffen Playhouse, where he was nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle Award. He won an Emmy and a GRAMMY Award for his performance in the Tony-winning Broadway production of The Bands Visit, as well as an Outer Critics Circle honor for his performance in Darling Grenadine at the Roundabout. Previously on Broadway, Adam starred in Fiddler on The Roof, Next to Normal, and Rent (final cast, filmed live for Sony Pictures). Off Broadway, he starred in The Last Five Years at Second Stage and Avenue Q at New World Stages. Regional highlights include Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrows Noir at the Alley, as well as Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crows Diner at the Signature. On TV he was in Billions on Showtime as Pununzio, and The Good Wife on CBS as Ezra. He recently starred in the feature film Either Side of Midnight, directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Adam is a graduate of Northwestern University and the British American Dramatic Academy. 54 The Princeton Festival princetonsymphony.org/festival'