Paulette Randall

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Paulette Randall is a former artistic director of the Talawa Theatre Company in the UK. She is one of Britain's best established and most respected black theater directors. Paulette is Chair of the Board of the Clean Break Theatre Company.

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Royal Court Theater

Directed "Blest be the Tie" by Doña Daley (2004). "Daley's concerns emerge naturally through her characters rather than hammering an agenda, and director Paulette Randall (whose Talawa company here co-produces with the Royal Court) gets her cast – Marion Bailey, Lorna Gayle and Ellen Thomas – to turn in performances which all engage in different ways." [1]
Directed "What's in the Cat" by Linda Brogan (2005) "What's in the Cat is painfully slow for its first 45 minutes but once the knives are drawn, picks up to become a fascinating kitchen-sink drama about the life of a highly volatile, mixed-race family in Manchester in the 1970s." [2]

Other theaters

Directed "Urban Afro Saxons" (2003). "Talawa's latest production is subtitled 'What Makes You British?' and is a timely contribution to the controversial debate spawned not only by Blunkett's proposed citizenship tests but the burning questions raised by racism in the police force."[3]
Directed "The Blues for Mr Charlie", by James Baldwin, 2004. "Blues For Mr Charlie may last for around three hours but the tension never drops. It would make a tremendous contribution to any debate on racism and its most terrifying facet is that it is set merely a generation ago."[4]
Directed "Gem of the Ocean" (2003, Los Angeles; 2004, New York; 2006, London) "... the scene is brilliantly staged, complete with chanting and gospel singing, as it re-enacts a slave-ship journey back to the African ancestral home.". [5]

Television

Produced Desmonds (1989).
Produced Porkpie (TV series) (1995).
Produced the second series of The Crouches (2004-2005). "The first series of this sitcom wasn't seen by many and was critically mauled by the press, the BBC gave it a second chance and used new writers for series 2." [6]