Andrew Pinard is an award-winning performer, arts leader, historian, and consultant with decades of experience working in the performing arts throughout the United States and internationally. He holds a BA in Music from Plymouth State University and has toured the United States and Switzerland with his music. He has performed/presented in the United States, Canada, England, Switzerland, and Italy.

Pinard founded and led the award-winning Hatbox Theatre (2016–2025) in Concord, NH, a 100-seat venue that presented more than 175 productions over ten years. He served as Executive Artistic Director of the Claremont Opera House (2020–2023) and Interim Executive Director of the AVA Gallery and Arts Center (2024–2025). His longstanding commitment to arts advocacy continues in his role as Vice Chair of the Arts4NH board.

His civic leadership includes service as a School Board Member for the Kearsarge Regional School District (2008–2020), where he played a key role in the 2015 design and renovation of the district’s high school auditorium. He also served on the Bradford Select Board (2006–2009) and as Chair in 2022, securing funding to renovate the historic Bradford Town Hall and Theater.

Pinard founded and directed the theatre program for the New England Summer Arts Program and has served as theatre director/drama advisor for Pembroke Academy and as technical director, lighting designer, and instructor for Kearsarge Arts Theatre in Sutton, NH. In 2017, he received the Vision and Tenacity Award at the NH Theatre Awards.

As a performer, Pinard presents contemporary magic, comedy, and variety throughout the Northeast and internationally. Alongside his contemporary performances of Discovering Magic, he is a noted scholar of 19th-century entertainments and the historic magician Jonathan Harrington. He presents through the NH Humanities To Go program and has published internationally on the subject. He performs as Harrington for historic organizations and theatres, including Canterbury Shaker Village (NH), the Sarah Orne Jewett House (ME), and a 16-day, 62+ performance run at Old Sturbridge Village (MA) in 2025. On June 15, 2026, he performed the magic of Jonathan Harrington to sold-out audiences at Lincoln Center in New York to great acclaim (2026).

Pinard is also a respected maker of magical apparatus, creator of La Maggiore equipment for the three shell game and hand-folded Troublewit (The Philosophical Paper), supplying performers worldwide. He serves as President of the New England Magic Collectors Association and has been Editor of The Yankee Magic Collector for over twenty years.

Andrew Pinard has been a full-time performer and theatre artist for over thirty-five years. He has presented thousands of performances throughout the northeastern United States as well as internationally in Montreal, London, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Andrew has been recognized by his peers as one of the finest close-up performers throughout the Northeast and took the top honors in the 18th Annual New England Magic Competition. Andrew was selected six times as Editors’ Choice for Best Magical Entertainer in “The Very Best of New Hampshire” issues of New Hampshire Magazine with an emphasis on his uncanny sleight-of-hand (“or is it?”) abilities.