Ronald Rand is an American stage and film actor, educator, director,
playwright, librettist, producer, and newspaper publisher. A U.S.
Cultural Goodwill Ambassador, Rand has performed his one-man show,
"Let It Be Art!" as Harold Clurman since 2001 in 25 countries and 20
states. Founder and Publisher of the newspaper, The Soul of the
American Actor, he is also the author of Create: How Extraordinary
People Live to Create and Create to Live, and Acting Teachers of
America.Rand was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida, and began
performing at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Coral Gables at age six,
appearing in many children's theatre plays over ten years. Rand
graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School. A graduate of New York
University Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, he received a
Bachelor of Fine Arts, studying with Stella Adler. Two of Rand's
classmates were Bill Paxton, for whom Rand wrote monologues to perform
in class, and Kate Valk. Subsequently, Rand also studied with Harold
Clurman, Robert Lewis, Joseph Chaikin, with Jerzy Grotowski at
Columbia University, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's summer
program in London. Rand began developing his one-man show in 1995, for
which he is best known, called "Let It Be Art!"Rand's odyssey as
Harold Clurman began with his first performance of his play, "Let It
Be Art" directed by Gregory Abels, at the Sande Shurin Theatre in New
York City in 2001. Rand performed his play twice Off-Broadway, first
produced by J.C. Compton, the second wife of Harold Clurman, at the
Century Center Theatre under the play's previous title, Clurman, and
then by the Mirror Repertory Company, at the ArcLight Theatre. Rand
made his New York debut in 1978 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as a
member of the cast of Julius Caesar with Richard Dreyfuss, George
Rose, Austin Pendleton, René Auberjonois, and Tom Hulce.Rand's
transformation into a 79-year-old Harold Clurman in his play, Let It
Be Art! comes through a two-hour transformation process in his
dressing room, based on Konstantin Stanislavski's Method of Physical
Actions.
playwright, librettist, producer, and newspaper publisher. A U.S.
Cultural Goodwill Ambassador, Rand has performed his one-man show,
"Let It Be Art!" as Harold Clurman since 2001 in 25 countries and 20
states. Founder and Publisher of the newspaper, The Soul of the
American Actor, he is also the author of Create: How Extraordinary
People Live to Create and Create to Live, and Acting Teachers of
America.Rand was born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida, and began
performing at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Coral Gables at age six,
appearing in many children's theatre plays over ten years. Rand
graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School. A graduate of New York
University Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, he received a
Bachelor of Fine Arts, studying with Stella Adler. Two of Rand's
classmates were Bill Paxton, for whom Rand wrote monologues to perform
in class, and Kate Valk. Subsequently, Rand also studied with Harold
Clurman, Robert Lewis, Joseph Chaikin, with Jerzy Grotowski at
Columbia University, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's summer
program in London. Rand began developing his one-man show in 1995, for
which he is best known, called "Let It Be Art!"Rand's odyssey as
Harold Clurman began with his first performance of his play, "Let It
Be Art" directed by Gregory Abels, at the Sande Shurin Theatre in New
York City in 2001. Rand performed his play twice Off-Broadway, first
produced by J.C. Compton, the second wife of Harold Clurman, at the
Century Center Theatre under the play's previous title, Clurman, and
then by the Mirror Repertory Company, at the ArcLight Theatre. Rand
made his New York debut in 1978 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as a
member of the cast of Julius Caesar with Richard Dreyfuss, George
Rose, Austin Pendleton, René Auberjonois, and Tom Hulce.Rand's
transformation into a 79-year-old Harold Clurman in his play, Let It
Be Art! comes through a two-hour transformation process in his
dressing room, based on Konstantin Stanislavski's Method of Physical
Actions.
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