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RONALD RAND is an internationally acclaimed actor/playwright. He has performed his play, LET IT BE ART! Harold Clurman’s Life of Passion, (now in its 8th year) in Paris, Athens, Tbilisi, twice Off-Broadway at Century Center and The ArcLight, NETC Conference, The GIFT Festival, at theatres and universities in fifteen states across America, including Tucson’s Invisible Theatre, and Anchorage’s Cyrano’s Theatre. He has been invited to bring the play to Israel, China, Latvia, and to the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. He appeared opposite Marian Seldes, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, and Rosemary Harris in a Scheuer Book Event he created at The Jewish Museum. A member of The Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, his plays include Consequences, Ode to the Moon; The Site of Human Life; and The Group! about the famed Group Theatre (World Premiere at Northern Illinois University). Mr. Rand’s new works include The Great Society, Music To My Ears, The Family Berg, and Neighbors with Lauren Bond. Consequences, and Neighbors were given readings here at Great Plains Theatre Conference. Beginning hisacting career in Florida at age six, he appeared in over 250 plays at a professional children’s theatre. His Off-Broadway debut in Julius Caesar at BAM with Richard Dreyfuss and Thomas Hulce, was followed by numerous New York appearances including as Hamm in Endgame, directed by Joseph Chaikin; all three leading male roles in Perfect Crime (two years); andMa Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. He toured Europe as the Fool in King Lear, and starred in LUV at New Hampshire’s Barnstormers Theatre. His over 400 TV and film appearances includes Law & Order (as Roman Rybakov, Mercedes Ruehl was his wife); A Marriage – O’Keefe and Steiglitz on American Playhouse (opposite Jane Alexander & Christopher Plummer); Homeless opposite Yoko Ono; Saturday Night Live (12 seasons); and The Ex, The Emperor’s Club, In & Out; Jerky Boys, Another You, Rude Awakening, and Quiz Show directed by Robert Redford. His recent appearances Off-Broadway include The Servant of Two Masters, directed by Stuart Vaughan; and Jean-Claude van Itallie’s adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and London’s RADA, his mentors include Harold Clurman, Stella Adler, Jerzy Grotowski, and Joseph Chaikin. In New York City, he presented Ruby Dee & Irene O’Garden in An Evening of Exceptional Women Poets; LiLiA!; Vivien Leigh; An Evening with Vijay Tendelkar, India’s greatest living playwright; Cirque Jacqueline; Vinie Burrows as Rose McClendon; Jane Austen; and new plays by Dale Wasserman and Ty Jones. Founder/Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of “The Soul of the American Actor,” (10th year in national circulation, it is the only newspaper in America dedicated to the art of the theatre). He has taught at Tbilisi’s Rustavelli State University, Northern Illinois University, Norfolk’s Governor’s School for the Arts, Syracuse University, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, among others. (www.ClurmanThePlay.com, www.SoulAmericanActor.com)
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