Randy Harrison

Randy Harrison, December 2007

Randolph "Randy" Clarke Harrison (born November 2, 1977 in Nashua , New Hampshire ) is an American actor .

life and career

Randy Harrison is the son of the CEO of a paper company and an artist. He has an older brother and was on stage at the age of seven. At the age of eleven, his family moved to Alpharetta, near Atlanta , Georgia . Until 1996 he attended the Catholic private school Pace Academy, where he graduated.

After high school , Harrison went to theater at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music Cincinnati (CCM) , where he also appeared in university productions such as Hello Again , Shopping and Fucking and Children of Eden . In addition, he was on stages in various US cities parallel to his studies. This included productions such as Violet at the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati and the musical 1776 at the St. Louis Municipal Theater. He also starred in A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Real Inspector Hound and A Cheever Evening . After graduating from college in March 2000, he moved to New York City .

Randy Harrison made his television debut in 2000 in the US series Queer as Folk , in which he played the student Justin Taylor until the end of the series in 2005 , who came out as a high school student, moved out at home and then led an openly gay life. Harrison had the strongest response from gay teenagers who were previously unouted and felt isolated.

On Broadway he was the first time in 2004 in the musical Wicked on stage and enjoyed great success with the play Equus by Peter Shaffer in the Berkshire Theater. Other plays and musicals in which he appeared were Grease and West Side Story . In 2006 he performed A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and for Amadeus at the Berkshire Theater Festival . In 2006 Harrison co-founded the Arts Bureau (tAB), an umbrella organization that promotes theater, film, music and writing. In 2007 he brought out his first tAB theater production, a heartwarming story, ultimately , a play based on the work of Anton Chekhov . In 2008 Harrison's first short film Thinking and the feature film Lorton Lake followed , which were also supported by tAB.

Randy Harrison was in a relationship with New York journalist Simon Dumenco, who worked for Advertising Age and Details magazines , from 2002 to 2008 . Harrison has lived in Williamsburg, New York, since December 2009 .

Theater (selection)

• Violet (Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati)
• 1776 (St. Louis Municipal Theater)
• West Side Story (Forestburg Playhouse)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Real Inspector Hound
• A Cheever Evening
• 2002: A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC Theater, NYC)
• 2004: Wicked ( Broadway , NYC)
• 2005: Equus ( Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2006: Amadeus (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2006: Encore (Pace Academy, Atlanta )
• 2007: The Glass Menagerie (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis )
• 2007: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2007: Mrs. Warren's Profession (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2008: Waiting for Godot (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2009: Ghosts (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2010: Endgame (Berkshire Theater Festival)
• 2010: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theater Company, Washington, DC )
• 2012: SILENCE! The Musical (Elektra Theater, Times Square )
• 2013: Harbor (Primary Stages, Off-Broadway )

Filmography

• 2000–2005: Queer as Folk (TV series, 83 episodes)
• 2002: Bang, Bang, You're Dead (Bang Bang You're Dead)
• 2010: Jack in a Box (TV series, episode 2x06)
• 2012: Gayby
• 2014: Such Good People
• 2015: Mr. Robot (TV series, episodes 1x03, 1x09)
• 2017: New York is Dead (TV series, episodes 1x01–1x05, various supporting roles)

Web links

• Randy Harrison in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual proof

1. ↑ Patrick Phillips: Simon Dumenco: 'The Web Has Created Little Original Media Value' , I Want Media, April 28, 2004