Charles Randolph-Wright

Theatre directing credits include Motown the Musical (Broadway, national tour, London); the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined; and Sophisticated Ladies at Arena Stage (where he is an inaugural resident playwright); the 75th anniversary international tour of the opera Porgy and Bess; Love/ Life at Lincoln Center (with Brian Stokes Mitchell); the national tour of Guys and Dolls (starring Maurice Hines); They’re Playing Our Song (in Brazil in Portuguese); and most recently, the world premiere of Akeelah and the Bee. Randolph-Wright wrote the plays Blue, The Night Is a Child, Love in Afghanistan, Cuttin’ Up (at the Alliance) and co-wrote Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends. Charles directed the award-winning film Preaching to the Choir and has written screenplays for HBO, Showtime, Disney and Fox. His television credits include directing the new series “Greenleaf,” “Lincoln Heights,” “South of Nowhere,” the Bebe Winans special “America America,” the “Freestyle” football commercial for Nike, and producing and writing the Showtime series “Linc’s.” Charles is a native of York, S.C., and an honor graduate of Duke University. 

 

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