San Jose Stage
Jan 19, 2017
Randall King
San Jose Stage
Randall King (San Jose Stage Company Artistic Director) is the Artistic Director and Co-founder of San Jose Stage Company where he’s played a distinguished leadership role in advancing the development and production of new work by local playwrights, while contributing to the body of new American plays through The Stage’s presentation of 46 new works and 14 world premieres in 33 seasons. Under King’s artistic direction the company continues to experience incredible growth and foster new creative partnerships, including the three-year relationship with El Teatro Campesino and a collaboration with Dublin’s Center for Cultural Arts in Ireland, resulting in a new work that will be commissioned with a rising Irish playwright and an international team of artists, designers and actors. The play will make its World Premiere in Dublin and San Jose in 2017. Mr King sits on the Board of Directors for San jose college of the Adaptive Arts
King has elevated The Stage’s artistic excellence through his choice of programming and collaborations including bringing San Diego REPertory Theatre’s production of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, written and performed by Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash, to The Stage in 2014. In King’s efforts to reach a more diverse audience, two bilingual matinees were added. In Spring 2014, The ThreePenny Opera ran for an 8-week extended run and swept the Outstanding Musical Awards Categories at the First Annual Theatre Bay Area Awards (November 2014). In association with Sacramento-based Capital Stage Company, The Stage produced Kristoffer Diaz’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety in 2013. The production received the Silicon Valley Theatre Awards for Standout Contemporary and Technical Standout Production for Set, Video and Fight Choreography. Under King’s artistic leadership, The Stage collaborated with local playwright Jennifer LeBlanc, in the commission and production of Jane Austen’s Persuasion in 2013, and commissioned and produced the World Premiere Buffalo’ed in 2012. This bold new theatrical work by Bay Area playwright Jeannie Barroga, with nationally recognized choreographer Alleluia Paris, was supported by the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundation 2-Year Collaborative Initiative.