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Randy Baker

RANDY BAKER

  
Nationality:    USA
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RAndy Baker is the co-artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre and with Jenny McConnell Frederick founded the company in the summer of 1999. Plays he has written that have been produced at Rorschach Theatre include DReaM SaILORS, aFTeR the FLOOD, CRUNCH (MYTH-ap08) and the BOY WHO KNeW NO FeaR (MYTH-ap07). Other plays include the RaBBIT aND the SNaKe (recently premiered at last year's SOURCe FeSTIVaL), VeRONICa's OMeLeT, CONQUeSTS, ROSeBURY, the DaNCe aLONe, LIKe BIRDS LeTTING GO, the BaLLaD OF ST VaLeNTINe, GaLLeONS LaP and IN the MIRROR DIMLY. DReaM SaILORS, a four-part serialized play about lucid dreaming, premiered last summer at Rorschach. aFTeR the FLOOD, a play that was told through shadow puppets and through conventional acting, was performed in January 2004. He is currently working on a retelling of the ePIC OF GILGaMeSH and on ISH, a magical-realist play about immortality found in the wreckage of Baghdad. With Rorschach he has also directed RHINOCeROS, JB, the world premiere of BeHOLD!, Chikamatsu's Kabuki masterpiece FaIR LaDIeS aT a GaMe OF POeM CaRDS and last season's production of MONSTeR. RAndy is the recipient of two artist fellowship grants and one young artist project grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He recently took part in the Kennedy Center's summer playwriting intensive. RAndy grew up overseas, mostly in Malaysia and Singapore and came back to attend the University of Richmond. He moved to Washington DC in 1997 and currently lives in Adams Morgan with his wife, costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         After the Flood         Burning Road         Circus Of Fallen Angels         Crunch         Dream Sailors         Forgotten Kingdoms         Gilgamesh         Lonely Dictator On the Eve Of Revolution, The         Monastery, The         Paolo And Francesca         Rabbit And the Snake         Rashomon's Gate
After the Flood

Synopsis:
Ethan Brooks, an American academic and a skeptic, returns to South East Asia, where he grew up, to study the dying art form of Malay shadow puppetry. Questions emerge surrounding the disappearance of one of the few remaining puppet masters, and Brooks sets off to find answers in the remote villages of Malaysia. the fables of the old puppeteer begin to mingle with Brooks' story as he searches and begins to reconcile his own shadows. In alternating scenes an actual shadow puppet play intersects with the modern narrative. Based loosely on the Hindu epic the Ramayana, it tells of a great battle that will bring either the birth of a hero or the death of a legend.

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Rorschach Theatre     2004

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Drama/Puppet

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Burning Road

Synopsis:
Devon's father has gone missing Malaysia. With two expatriate Americans he goes in search of him

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Circus Of Fallen Angels

Synopsis:
a group of prison inmates who were imprisoned as children for reasons unknown to them are made to perform as part of their rehabilitation. they have to perform Milton's "Paradise Lost" as adapted for trapeze artists

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also known As "the First Disobedience"

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College Of Arts And Science, Washington D C     22 Mar 2012

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Crunch

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Dream Sailors

Synopsis:
Four friends, drawn together by their uniquely powerful ability to lucid dream, awaken to make a grim discovery in their basement. their worlds turned upside down, they must return to the dark landscape of their dreams for answers. But what lurks there might destroy them all. !!!:

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Georgetown University, Washington Dc     2008

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Suspense/Drama/Comedy

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Forgotten Kingdoms

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On an Indonesian island a clergyman tries to convert a young local lad

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Gilgamesh

Synopsis:
Retelling of the ancient story of Gilgamesh which was in what is now Iraq.

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Lonely Dictator On the Eve Of Revolution, The

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Monastery, The

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An ancient monastery has been destroyed by American drones. Lieutenant Alicia Gray comes to assess the damage

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Paolo And Francesca

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Rabbit And the Snake

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Source Festival Of Ten Minute Plays, Washington D C     2008

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Rashomon's Gate

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A priest and a woodcutter take shelter from the rain under Rashomon's Gate. They talk of a terrible murder that may or may not have happened

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