​Artistic Direction

Randall Stuart’s work as a theatre artist spans five decades, and includes productions at regional theaters, opera companies, summer festivals, and benefits for the public good. As a director and actor, Randall's work has been seen on the stages of the American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Portland Rep, A Contemporary Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Encore Theater Company, Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival, Artists Repertory Theater, among others. Randall trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco (1974-79). 

Randall Stuart is the author of SQUIRE - The Chronicle of John Hardyng and the upcoming historical manuscript The Resplendent West. Mr. Stuart created the artistic producing platform UPON THESE BOARDS in San Francisco in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Lysistrata Project: A Worldwide Theatrical Peace Event, in what was the largest staged rendition of Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, performed on Berkeley Rep's MainStage for two sold-out performances. In 2009 he founded and ran the arts & humanities organization Cerimon House in Oregon, and in 2020 returned to the important work of UPON THESE BOARDS (now located in New York) collaborating with artists and authors to create intriguing new projects, including the upcoming offering Backstage Left. 

​Mr. Stuart has taught in a variety of college, university, and professional theater training programs, and as an author and playwright has been commissioned to create stage adaptations of classical material. His work as a teaching artist includes the American Conservatory Theater [A.C.T.] leading the Advanced Training Program in productions of Shakespeare, Shaw, Brecht & Weill, Gozzi, and Churchill; and as a guest teacher & director at Southern Oregon University, Pacific University, University of California Santa Cruz, and the Berkeley Rep School of Theater. 

As a staging director for the creative team of Macy's Passport - one of the nation's largest benefits in the 1990's to fund AIDS/HIV research at UCSF, Randall co-created original performances works with choreographer Deborah Brown of Cirque du Soliel, the aerial company Aero/Betty, the percussion sensation Stomp, Imago Mask Theatre, and Pink Martini. As a global citizen Mr. Stuart has involved himself in community human rights benefits and world peace demonstrations, and is featured in the documentary The Arms Race Within as a member and emcee of the Puget Sound Agape Community, and in the Brian Lindstrom documentary Alien Boy, The Life and Death of James Chasse as an eye witness to an infamous execution of justice. Now positioned on the edge of the Hudson River he works on a sweeping ancestral epic The Resplendent West and feels quite fortunate to have lived a long life "upon the boards".