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Director, Smote This, A Comedy About God...and Other Serious $H*T
Raz Golden is a director of theatre and film. His work employs new and classical stories to dissect history, performance, and pop culture, while continually centering people of color. He has directed and developed work with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Orchard Project, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage, the National Queer Theatre, the Mercury Store, the Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and NYU Tisch. He has been a NYTW 2050 Fellow, a Drama League 2019 Fellow, and a member of Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2. As a filmmaker he has collaborated on numerous projects with the creative agency Adventure We Can. Directing: Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Seven, How to Catch Creation (Juilliard), Smote This (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2024), The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), What the Constitution Means to Me (Weston Theatre Company), Orestes (SUNY Purchase), Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues (Shakespeare & Company). Associate Directing: KENREX (dir. Ed Stambollouian, The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Kip Williams), Romeo+Juliet, An Enemy of the People, Macbeth (dir. Sam Gold), Good Night Oscar (dir. Lisa Peterson).