Randall Stuart’s work as a freelance teaching artist spans four decades, and includes joining the faculties of university theater programs as a guest lecturer and project director. He returned as a full-time instructor and director to his alma mater, the American Conservatory Theater [A.C.T.], in the 1990's to lead the students of the Advanced Training Program in fully-mounted productions of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill, Carlo Gozzi, and Caryl Churchill. Randall has been a guest director at Southern Oregon University and Pacific University, and more recently has taught for the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.
Randall's style as a teacher is greatly influenced by his mentors. His training took place at A.C.T. in the 1970's, and he treasures the vigorous multi-layered curriculum he experienced there, carrying with him the resulting sense of "the positive and the possible"; trusting that such in-depth training empowers the work in the classroom, the rehearsal hall, and onstage. Randall's time as an actor includes the experience of language-based classics, deeply-felt contemporary characters, rascals, madmen, and clowns. With roots in Stanislavski training, and an eager interest in emerging teaching methods, Randall believes in the vivid balance of comedy and tragedy onstage, and in doing so has specialized in teaching La Vita è Commedia: a combined form of the history of comedy, sense memory, and physical gesture.
Randall's style as a teacher is greatly influenced by his mentors. His training took place at A.C.T. in the 1970's, and he treasures the vigorous multi-layered curriculum he experienced there, carrying with him the resulting sense of "the positive and the possible"; trusting that such in-depth training empowers the work in the classroom, the rehearsal hall, and onstage. Randall's time as an actor includes the experience of language-based classics, deeply-felt contemporary characters, rascals, madmen, and clowns. With roots in Stanislavski training, and an eager interest in emerging teaching methods, Randall believes in the vivid balance of comedy and tragedy onstage, and in doing so has specialized in teaching La Vita è Commedia: a combined form of the history of comedy, sense memory, and physical gesture.
CLASSES:
Scene Study | Audition | Shakespeare | Commedia dell'arte
WORKSHOPS:
Commedia dell'arte | Chorus & Gesture | Ancestors & Ensemble | Magical Realism
