Biography
Randy Redd is a Mississippi-born actor known for Beautiful Creatures, After the Storm, and the original Broadway production of Parade (directed by Hal Prince). He went on to appear in the Broadway productions of Ring of Fire and as "Jerry Lee Lewis" in Million Dollar Quartet. His stage work also includes Smoke on the Mountain, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves (directed by Alan Ayckbourn), Terrence McNally’s Some Men (directed by Trip Cullman), The Burnt Part Boys, Randy Newman’s Faust, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Allegro (directed by John Doyle), Alain Boublil’s Manhattan Parisienne (directed by Graciela Daniele), and The View UpStairs.
Film and television credits include Beautiful Creatures (directed by Richard LaGravenese), The Last Five Years, After the Storm (directed by Hilla Medalia), Kinsey (directed by Bill Condon), From Broadway with Love, The Wright Verdicts, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Tony Awards, and others.
As a writer, Redd’s work includes Sons of Levi, What’s That Smell? (with David Pittu), Elkin Dab (with Robin Skye), Touché (with Blair Ross), Dan Mills’ Fiction in Photographs, The Black + White, and American Tune. His first play, Mississippi Sugar, was developed and produced at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
His recordings include Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (with Jason Robert Brown), The Burnt Part Boys, Ring of Fire, Lucky Stiff, Parade, The View UpStairs, NEO, House of Love, Songs from a Failed Play, and ShowFolk with Rachel Bay Jones.
Directing credits include regional theatre productions of Ring of Fire, Mean Girls, Once Upon a Mattress, Footloose, 9 to 5, Million Dollar Quartet, Smoke on the Mountain, Exit Music: The Pop-Rock Project, Swing Wings, Little Shop of Horrors, Extraordinary Joe, Les Misérables, Fiction in Photographs at New World Stages, and numerous productions for Royal Caribbean Productions.
