Randy Danson

Randy Danson has been seen at the American Repertory Theater in the title role of Phaedra, as Kate in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Delfina Treadwell in Valparaiso, Mae Garga in In the Jungle of Cities, Agave in The Bacchae, and Clytaemnestra in The Oresteia. She played Ahab's Wife in Ahab's Wife and the Whale, conceived, choreographed, and staged by Amy Spencer and Richard Colton, with text by Tom Sleigh, and presented at the Jim Henson Festival at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in New York. Other New York credits include Ain and David Gordon's workshop production of The First Picture Show and Elizabeth Egloff's The Devils, directed by Garland Wright; the title role in Elizabeth Egloff's Phaedra; Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest; as well as Triumph of Love, The Treatment, and Blue Window. Her resident credits include Masha in Three Sisters, Arkadina in The Seagull, ShenTe/Shui Ta in The Good Person of Szechuan (Helen Hayes Award winner), Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, several roles in Tony Kushner's Slavs, and the title role in Robert Woodruff's production of The Duchess of Malfi. On television she has appeared in the film version of Blue Window and The Prince of Homburg, as well as in guest roles on Law and Order, The Equalizer, and several soap operas. On film she has been in several features by independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport and in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.