Andrew Barth Feldman (born May 7, 2002) is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career in musical theater by participating in local productions as a child. Feldman won a Jimmy Award for his high school's production of the musical Catch Me If You Can in 2018. In 2019 he played the title role in the musical Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway.
Feldman had a guest role in the television musical series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series in 2021. He expanded to films in 2023 with a supporting role in A Tourist's Guide to Love and a leading role in No Hard Feelings. He voiced both Dopey and the narrator in Snow White (2025). In 2025 he starred in Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway.
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Early life and education
Feldman was born in 2002 in Manhasset, New York, to David Feldman and Barbara Barth. He was raised with an older sister in a Jewish family. Feldman became a fan of musical theater at an early age after watching a production of Beauty and the Beast at age three. He went on to star in various local and school productions, including Annie, Grease, and Rent. He started a YouTube channel in high school to do projects for school.
He also founded his own musical theater company in middle school, Zneefrock Productions, as part of his bar mitzvah project to raise money for autism research. He and his friend Adrian Dickson wrote and directed a Star Wars parody musical for the company, which would later be staged at 54 Below with professional actors. He attended Lawrence Woodmere Academy, where his mother worked as an administrator before her death in August 2019.
After taking time off from high school to star in Dear Evan Hansen, Feldman initially decided to attend Harvard University in the fall of 2020, but he deferred his enrollment a year to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, he took a semester off from Harvard when he booked the co-lead role in the film No Hard Feelings opposite Jennifer Lawrence.
Career
Acting career
In 2018, his sophomore year of high school, Feldman portrayed Frank Abagnale Jr. in his high school's production of the musical Catch Me If You Can. After winning his regional awards program for this performance, he was invited to perform at the Jimmy Awards, where he won the award for best actor. Stacey Mindich, the lead producer of Dear Evan Hansen, saw his performance and asked him to audition for the role of Evan Hansen on Broadway. On January 30, 2019, at the age of 16, Feldman assumed the role of Evan Hansen, taking over for Taylor Trensch. His performance was lauded, with Sarah Bahr in the New York Times writing, "Andrew Barth Feldman made me forget where I was, who I was, that I was anything other than part of the world onstage...I'm pretty sure I didn't draw breath the entire first act." He left the show on January 26, 2020, after which Jordan Fisher took over the role.
During the pandemic he began a fundraiser for the Actor's Fund called "Broadway Jackbox" in March 2020, alongside former Dear Evan Hansen co-star Alex Boniello. This fundraiser streamed on Twitch with famous Broadway and screen actors each week. He additionally created a murder mystery series called Broadway Whodunit, starring Broadway and theatre actors. During his run in the show, he kept a Broadway.com vlog. He also maintains a YouTube channel under his name. He started his theatre company, Zneefrock Productions, to raise money for autism awareness. He can be heard playing himself in As the Curtain Rises, an original Broadway soap opera podcast from the Broadway Podcast Network.
Feldman starred as Alfredo Linguini in a benefit concert presentation of Ratatouille the Musical, an internet meme that originated on TikTok, inspired by the 2007 Disney/Pixar film. The concert streamed exclusively on TodayTix on January 1, 2021. His performance was celebrated, with Jesse Green writing in The New York Times that Feldman "seems to have animated his face to match Pixar's version: He's instantly adorable while looking like he still might gnaw your toe."
Feldman made his television acting debut in the Disney+ show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series as a recurring guest star in season 2 playing Antoine, a French exchange student.
On May 7, 2021, Feldman appeared in the short film Thespians by Casey Likes, a 2019 Jimmy Award finalist.
Music
On July 8, 2021, Feldman released his first single, "Every Pretty Girl", about falling in love as a teenager with OCD. Also in that month Feldman was featured on American actress and singer Cozi Zuehlsdorff's single "The Old Me and You". On September 23, 2022, Feldman and Joe Serafini released "In My Head", a duet by songwriters Daniel Mertzlufft and Jacob Ryan Smith, about the budding romance between two young men. On Christmas Eve 2021 Feldman released his second single "Emma".