David Hyde Pierce made his Carnegie Hall debut with Orchestra of St Luke’s in November of 2022, narrating Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent roles include Major General Stanley in the Broadway production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, and the Bishop in Stephen Sondheim’s last musical, Here We Are. Broadway credits: Hello, Dolly! (Tony nomination), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination), La Bête, Curtains (Tony Award), Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles and Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: roles in new works by Richard Greenberg, Mark O’Donnell, Harry Kondoleon, Jules Feiffer, Molly Smith Metzler, Adam Bock and Kander and Pierce. He directed Hargrove and Anselmi’s It Shoulda Been You on Broadway, Vanya and Sonia at L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord at MTC, and a gangster-themed Importance of Being Earnest at Williamstown. Film credits include Crossing Delancey, Little Man Tate, Sleepless in Seattle, Wolf, Nixon, Isn’t She Great, Wet Hot American Summer, Down With Love, A Bug’s Life, Osmosis Jones, Treasure Planet, and The Perfect Host. Television roles include a depressed congressman in Norman Lear’s “The Powers That Be,” Dr. Niles Crane on “Frasier” (Emmy, SAG Awards), and Julia Child’s devoted husband Paul on the HBO Max series, Julia. A longtime fan and board member of OSL, David is delighted to get to play with the band again.
