Paulette randall biography books

British theatre director (born )

Paulette Randall, MBE (born ) is a British theatre director of Jamaican descent.^[1] She was chair of the board of Clean Break Theatre Company in –07, and is former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company. She was the associate director for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.^[1][2]

Biography

Paulette Randall was born in south London to Jamaican parents.^[3] She attended Saint Jude's Primary and Dick Shepherd Secondary School in Brixton.^[4] When she was 11, she started helping out in a shop on Saturdays and she has said: "It was working in Brixton market that was my real first understanding of theatre, just the characters you met and stories you heard."^[5] She subsequently went to drama school at the age of 18, training to be an actress at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.^[6] After graduating in , she and two fellow students – Bernar