Upon These Boards:

Metamorphoses: "...steady-handed direction...by turns playful, meditative, and deeply somber... a gorgeous, poignant depth...funny and stylish...heartfelt...transformative."

Under Milk Wood: "...a poetic, physical landscape that matches the flowing richness of Thomas’ timeless piece...the actors magnificently reenact the physical life of a Welsh town."

Wind in the Willows: "...clever... sweetly endearing and deftly entertaining. A triumph. "

The Colour Of Justice: "Stuart creates a theater experience teaming with life (and) human beings at their noblest." "...Stuart's brilliant (and) inspired direction ."

Randall Stuart

Artistic Director Randall Stuart is a theatre director working regionally and abroad. He received his training at the American Conservatory Theater in the 1970's and has returned to A.C.T. in the intervening decades to teach and direct in the Advanced Training Program. His work includes classical, contemporary and epic theatre events, as well as establishing the Arts organizations Upon These Boards and Cerimon House. Randall teaches at institutions of higher learning and directs for repertory theatres, opera companies and Shakespeare festivals.

The Inkwell Communiqués

Recent directing credits include Ruhl's Eurydice and Zimmerman's Metamorphoses at Artists Repertory Theatre, Grahame's The Wind in the Willows at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Thomas' Under Milk Wood in Marin.

Other projects include the award-winning international peace event Lysistrata Project on Berkeley Rep’s Roda Stage, Three Blooms at Word For Word in San Francisco, the American premiere of the British docudrama The Colour of Justice in Oakland, and productions of the Bard's Pericles, Cymbeline and Timon of Athens. Upcoming projects include Green & Weill's Johnny Johnson.

Under Milk Wood

Mr. Stuart's contracts as an actor included roles on the stages of Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Rep, ACT Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre (among others) and he credits angelic mentors William Ball, Allen Fletcher, Sydney Walker, Angus Bowmer and Rex Rabold for exampling both daring and panache. Randall has co-created new performance works with renowned performers and musical groups including Cirque du Soleil’s choreographer Debra Brown and her acrobatic dance troupe Apogee. His compositions as a playwright have been produced regionally and on tour. Randall is the artistic shepherd for the new play A Lovely Day as well as the four-play-cycle The Inkwell Communiqués (an epic theatre event based on a true story.)