is a director based in Los Angeles. Most recently, she directed The Solid Life of Sugar Water for Deaf West, Friends with Guns Stephanie Walker and her long-time collaborator John Fleck’s Blacktop Highway at the Odyssey Theatres, as well as all recent versions at RedCat and Dixon Place in NYC. This fall, she will stage a new commissioned play, Loop Group, or Shia La Beouf’s Version at the Luckman, at CalStateLA. Randee directed a run of new works at Berlin’s English Theater in Germany, took her own version of Sophocles’ Electra to an international festival Delphi, Greece and staged a pirate musical on a Disney Cruise Ship. She’s directed many solos works with Obie-winning satiric-puppeteer Paul Zaloom, of Beekman’s World fame. Her work has been seen at regional theaters, (The Mystery of Irma Vep and Hedwig and the Angry Inch) at Actor’s Express, Atlanta and in Santa Fe, and many intimate theaters specializing on new plays with writers like: Doug Cooney, Julie Hebért, Bridget Carpenter, Jessica Goldberg, Jamie Brandli, Elizabeth Dement and Susan Merson. She worked in some big places too, like MOCA’S Geffen Contemporary (Brecht/Weill’s Happy End), California Adventure Themepark (Chance to Shine), Cal Plaza, The Getty (Fleck’s Dirt), the L.A. Opera (Jack and the Magic Songbird) and the Performing Arts Center in Santa Clarita (Lysistrata, Hair) and Redcat in Disney Hall (Blacktop Highway and Zaloom’s Mother of All Enemies & ABCdarium). Her productions have garnered some prizes, (LA Weekly Award, Valley Theater Award, Garland and Ovation Awards, Finalist Short and Sweet Festival, etc.) and been awarded grants (CAD, Durfee and Flintridge). Randee teaches and directs in the Theatre Department at CSULA. She has worked as a critic for the L.A. Weekly and analyzes writing and screenplays for Disney Animation. https://www.randeetrabitz.com/
