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"....the most ambitious local production in recent memory. Stuart creates a theater experience teaming with life (and) human beings at their noblest." "...Stuart's brilliant weaving of these fascinating interviews is complemented by his inspired direction (featuring) thirty actors from six different continents."
The Colour Of Justice

"...gifted ensemble...steady-handed direction...by turns playful, meditative, and deeply somber. Taken as a whole, the production has a gorgeous, poignant depth to it, at times quite funny and stylish...gorgeous, and heartfelt; a welcome reminder that there’s something transformative about theater of this caliber." Metamorphoses

"Under the direction of Randall Stuart, the cast create both a poetic and physical landscape that matches the flowing richness of Thomas’ timeless piece....the actors magnificently reenact the physical life of a small Welsh town..."

Under Milk Wood

Randall Stuart
is the Artistic Director of Upon These Boards, a theatre troupe presenting plays in unique venues and serving as a platform for innovative designers, actors, composers & wordsmiths to combine their imaginings onstage.

As a theatre director and educator, Mr. Stuart’s repertoire includes classical, modern, contemporary, musical and epic theatre events. Randall received his training at the American Conservatory Theatre (in the William Ball & Allen Fletcher era) and has returned to A.C.T. in the intervening decades to teach and direct in the Advanced Training Program. He has served as a guest lecturer & director at numerous institutions of higher learning, as well as directing special projects for Shakespeare festivals, opera companies and peace programs. His contracts onstage have included roles at Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Rep, A.C.T. (San Francisco), ACT (Seattle), Artists Rep (Portland) and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland), among others.

The Inkwell Communiqués

Randall's most recent directing credits include a large-scale rendition of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood with an original musical score by Katy Stephan, A Lovely Day (an adaptation of Michel de Ghelderode's Pantagleize), At The Still Point (T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets), Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses and Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice with Portland’s Artists Rep.

Other stage projects include the award-winning 100 cast member peace event Lysistrata Project on Berkeley Rep’s Roda Stage, Three Blooms at Word For Word (San Francisco), several of the Bard's final works including Pericles, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens, Two Noble Kinsmen, and the American premiere of the British docudrama The Colour of Justice (Oakland.)

As an author, Mr. Stuart's compositions cover a variety of specialized commissions, and as a playwright his scripts have been produced regionally and on tour. As a staging director he has co-created new performance works with renowned performers and musical groups including Pink Martini and Cirque du Soleil’s choreographer Debra Brown and her acrobatic dance troupe Apogee.

Randall is the artistic shepherd for the four-play cycle The Inkwell Communiqués.

Oakland Tribune Profile of Randall Stuart