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RICHARD STOCKTON RAND
Richard Stockton Rand has acted on and off Broadway, in regional theatre, and in films and commercials. A recipient of an Indiana Arts Commission-National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship, Rand has performed his solo work in hundreds of cities on four continents. His creative and scholarly work has been published in Movement for Actors, Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte, Baseball Monologues, More Monologues for Men by Men, Hopewell Journal: New Work by Indiana’s Best Writers, Sycamore Review, and others.
Rich has directed, acted or choreographed 100 professional productions, frequently works with Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis and has been a resident artist at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota/Guthrie, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Brandeis University, The College of William and Mary, University of Rochester, and many others. More important than his professional career, Rich is - first and foremost - a teacher, specializing in the integration of characterization and acting. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Rich has established teaching excellence committees in the School of Visual and Performing Arts and the Department of Theatre, served as a Senior Faculty Mentor in Purdue University’s Teachers for Tomorrow program, and frequently lectures on teaching, character, and leadership. In addition to serving on 175 committees at Purdue, he has served as Chair, Interim Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator of Purdue Theatre, and as President of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators.