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Felder has written and performed solo in seven plays of notable composers, with an eighth scheduled for April 2020.

A 2014 American Theatre profile referred to Felder as being "in a category all his own". His major portrayals are those of George Gershwin, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Claude Debussy. He has also given a dramatic impersonation of the American songwriter Irving Berlin.

In 2014, Felder directed concert pianist Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane, an adaptation of the book The Children of Willesden Lane, telling the story of Golabek's mother as an adolescent in the Kindertransport during World War II.

In 2010, he premiered his one-man play-with-music about Leonard Bernstein, Maestro. In 2013, Felder received a letter from Russian officials inviting him to portray Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The same month, Russian authorities had passed anti-gay legislation. Since Tchaikovsky is believed to have been homosexual, Felder named his work "Our Great Tchaikovsky", performing it only in the U.S.

As a composer, Felder's works include Noah's Ark, an Opera, Aliyah Concerto on Israeli Themes, as well as Song Settings (the poetry of Vachel Lindsay). In September 2010, An American Story was recorded with the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra of Chicago.

Felder moved to Los Angeles in 1994, working briefly for the USC Shoah Foundation, interviewing Holocaust survivors to preserve their oral histories on film. The following year, he attended the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in Poland, which led to his creation of a one-man show, George Gershwin Alone.

Hershey Felder (born July 9, 1968) is a pianist, actor, and playwright known for his portrayals of classical and American composers on the theatrical stage.

Felder was born on July 9, 1968, to Jacob Felder (born in Ustrzyki, Poland, 1929) and Eva Surek Felder (born in Budapest, Hungary, 1946). Felder's upbringing in a Jewish family included Eastern European Jewish traditions.