Randy Baker is a playwright, director and the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre which he founded  with Jenny McConnell Frederick in the summer of 1999.

Plays he has written and had produced at Rorschach Theatre include the full-length plays Dream Sailors and After the Flood and the short plays Paolo and Francesca, Beit Jala and Crunch. Other produced plays include Circus of Fallen Angels at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and the short plays The Rabbit and The Snake and Cassandra Dances with the Devil at Source Theatre, A Lonely Dictator on the Eve of Revolution at Forum Theatre, The Boy Who Knew No Fear at Three Leaches Theatre (Colorado), Sam the Prophet, Veronica’s Omelet and The Wind at Their Backs at Extreme Exchange and The Ballad of Saint Valentine at the Washington Theatre Festival.  Readings and workshops include Forgotten Kingdoms (National New Play Network), The First Disobedience (American University), The Burning Road (Primary Stages), Gilgamesh (Rorschach Theatre) and Vox (Theater Alliance).   He is currently developing the plays Forgotten Kingdoms, The First Disobedience and The Burning Road.

As a director with Rorschach Theatre he has directed After the Quake, 1001, Rhinoceros, JB, Behold!, Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards  and Monster. He has also directed for Source Theatre, The Inkwell, First Draft, Young Playwrights Theatre, NCDA’s Actors Repertory Theatre, First Draft, Wayward Theatre, Cherry Red Productions, Theater J, Woolly Mammoth’s Playground series, The Seattle Fringe Festival and the Washington Theater Festival.

Randy grew up overseas, mostly in Malaysia and Singapore and came back to attend the University of Richmond. He received his MFA in creative writing from Goddard College in 2012 and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.  He moved to Washington DC in 1997 and currently lives in Adams Morgan with his wife, costume designer Debra Kim Sivigny.