about: Upon These Boards

Randall Stuart created the "artistic platform" Upon These Boards in 2002 in the San Francisco Bay Area to act as a creative environment for a variety of theatrical new works, workshops, symposia, and literary salons. An ensemble of actors, writers, directors, designers, and producers worked together to offer unusual and unique happenings. Within a year, Upon These Boards was awarded the 2003 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for the "Worldwide Theatrical Peace Event" Lysistrata Project, in what was the largest rendition offered worldwide, and performed at Berkeley Repertory Theatre for two sold-out performances. This was followed by a series of large-scale presentations, focused on world peace & ecology, which played as special evenings at Berkeley Rep and the Aurora Theatre: including The Inkwell Communiques, and Kathryn Blume's The Accidental Activist. The plays Fools Fall and A Lovely Day were also workshopped and fully staged at local universities. A series of symposia and salons included T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets ​featuring actors Ray Reinhardt, Naomi Newman, Lorri Holt, and Randall Stuart.

After a recent hiatus of ten years (during which he founded and ran the arts & humanities organization Cerimon House) Randall Stuart returns to Upon These Boards in 2021, working with a handful of artists and authors to create a series of intriguing new projects. The work commences in Portland, Seattle, Oakland, and New York. Stay tuned in 2022 for Backstage Left, Fond Friends & Foolish Fellows, Thenceforth, and The Visitation.

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