Randall Duk Kim
On Broadway, Randall Duk Kim has performed in The King and I, Golden Child, and Flower Drum Song. In a career spanning nearly fifty years, he has appeared on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival in The Jungle of Cities (the Public), The Tempest (Lincoln Center), Pericles and Cymbeline (the Delacorte); the American Place Theatre in The Chickencoop Chinaman, The Karl Marx Play, The Year of the Dragon and Nourish the Beast; the Jewish Repertory Theatre in A Majority of One; the Champlain Shakespeare Festival (Burlington, Vermont) in The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard III; the American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco, California) in King Richard III, Street Scene, The Taming of the Shrew, The Three Penny Opera, Marco Millions and When We Are Married; the Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, Minnesota) in The Pretenders, Teibele and Her Demon, Hamlet and The Marriage; the Singapore Repertory Theatre in Golden Child and ART. In 1979 with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright, he co-founded American Players Theater in Wisconsin, serving as Artistic Director and playing such Shakespearean roles as Puck, Titus Andronicus, Petruchio, King John, Friar Laurence, Shylock, Brutus, Malvolio, Falstaff, Prospero, Hamlet and King Lear, as well as Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Chekhov’s Ivanov, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and Moliere’s Tartuffe.Very early in his career, Mr. Kim did one film and a few episodes on the television series Hawaii Five-O, but most of such work has only come within the last 20 years: television credits include Nourish the Beast, Prisoners in Time (BBC), The Lost Empire, 100 Centre Street, Thief, New Amsterdam, Cashmere Mafia, Fringe, Elementary and Person of Interest;film credits include General Alak in Anna and the King, The Keymaker in Matrix Reloaded, Doctor Crab in Memoirs of a Geisha, Grampa Gohan in Dragonball Evolution, The Tattoo Master in Ninja Assassin and Master Oogway in the animated franchise Kung Fu Panda. Mr. Kim is a recipient of an OBIE for “Sustained Excellence of Performance.”
Lovers of Shakespeare’s plays are invited for a gathering on September 15th called DISCOVERING KING LEAR. It is a four hour session led by Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso in which ACT I will be read, followed by a lively audience discussion of what happens in the play. We will introduce the FOLIO and different tools and techniques and tales that have provided our approach to bringing the play to life. This is a unique opportunity to work on, arguably, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies as if it were being prepared to be performed on the stage.
The workshop is free of charge, but we are limiting attendance to 40 people, so reservations are highly encouraged.
More on Randall Duk Kim, including interviews and podcasts, at The Performing Arts Legacy Project
Anne Occhiogrosso
Director Anne Occhiogrosso received national attention for her body of work at American Players Theatre where she was co-artistic director. An acclaimed director, dramaturg, acting coach and actress, her focus has always been classical theatre with a special emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare. At the American Players Theatre, she directed 16 Shakespearean plays along with works of by Moliere, Ibsen, Plautus and Chekhov. She also performed the roles of The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude in Hamlet, Natalya in The Proposal, Madame Arkadina in The Seagull, Jocasta in Oedipus Rex and Anna Petrovna in Ivanov, a production which was co-directed by Morris Carnovsky and Phoebe Brand who have served as career mentors to both Kim and Occhiogrosso. She has also taught at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
More on Anne and Randy from the University of Wisconsin Division of the Arts Website