Randy Baker is the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre and with Jenny McConnell Frederick founded the company in the summer of 1999.
Plays of his that have been produced at Rorschach Theatre include DREAM SAILORS, AFTER THE FLOOD and several plays through MYTH-APPROPRIATION: PAOLO AND FRANCESCA, BEIT JALA, CRUNCH and THE BOY WHO KNEW NO FEAR. Other plays include THE RABBIT AND THE SNAKE, CASSANDRA DANCES WITH THE DEVIL, SAM THE PROPHET, VERONICA'S OMELET, CONQUESTS, ROSEBURY, THE DANCE ALONE, LIKE BIRDS LETTING GO, THE BALLAD OF ST VALENTINE, GALLEONS LAP and IN THE MIRROR DIMLY. DREAM SAILORS, a four-part serialized play about lucid dreaming, premiered last summer at Rorschach. AFTER THE FLOOD, a play that was told through shadow puppets and through conventional acting, was performed in January 2004. He is currently working on a retelling of THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH and on ISH, a magical-realist play about immortality found in the wreckage of Baghdad.
As a Director with Rorschach he recently directed Jason Grote's 1001. In the past 9 seasons at Rorschach he has also directed RHINOCEROS, JB, the world premiere of BEHOLD!, Chikamatsu's Kabuki masterpiece FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS and MONSTER.
Randy is the recipient of two artist fellowship grants and one young artist project grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Randy grew up overseas, mostly in Malaysia and Singapore and came back to attend the University of Richmond. He moved to Washington DC in 1997 and currently lives in Adams Morgan with his wife, costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.
(PICTURE ABOVE taken by Luke Christopher
at the 2009 FIRE OF LOVE FETE)
An interview and story about 1001, done for VOICE OF AMERICA's Persian Service:
For Randy's profile on the RORSCHACH THEATRE BLOG,
click HERE
For the WASHINGTON POST feature article on RORSCHACH THEATRE, THEATER ALLIANCE and CATALYST THEATER,
click HERE
To hear Randy talk about his play AFTER THE FLOOD on NPR,
click HERE!
(The interview is the fourth from the top)