Randy Baker is a playwright, director and the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre in Washington DC. Some of the recent shows he has directed with Rorschach include The Figs, Human Museum, Very Still and Hard to See (Five Helen Hayes Nominations including Best Director), She Kills Monsters (as well as the site-specific 2019 revival), The Minotaur, After the Quake and Chemical Exile: Synthesis. Some recent shows he has directed outside of Rorschach include the seven-room living installation piece, Hello, My Name Is… at The Welders (Three Helen Hayes nominations including Best Director), a shadow puppet gamelan-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at WSC Avant Bard, Big Love at Catholic University, Anon/ymous at Georgetown University and his own adaptation of Rashōmon at American University. Recent plays he has written include the world premieres of Forgotten Kingdoms (winner of the Larry Neal writers award) and Truth & Beauty Bombs: A Softer World at Rorschach Theatre and workshops and educational productions of The Burning Road (Arena Stage), Monastery (Theater J), Rashōmon (American University and Spooky Action Theatre), Circus of Fallen Angels (NCDA and American University), wild42hold (George Washington University), Between Days and Medea: A Teenage Revenge Tragedy at Theatre Lab. He is currently developing an adaptation of The Legend of Hang Tuah (A Malay epic with martial arts and shadow puppetry, developed in collaboration with Malay and Singaporean artists).
He has been an adjunct professor at George Washington University and American University and is faculty at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts. He has taught and has been a guest artist at numerous other institutions including Georgetown University, Catholic University, The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and Imagination Stage. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and recently served as the Washington DC regional rep for the Dramatistists Guild of America.
(Current as of 2025)
Mingling Glances 