Randy Harrison’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American actor
A.K.A. Randolph Clarke Harrison
Is Actor 
Stage actor 
Film actor 
Television actor 
From United States of America 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender male
Birth 2 November 1977, Nashua, USA
Age: 42 years
Star sign Scorpio
Residence Williamsburg, USA
Education
University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music

Randolph Clarke Harrison (born November 2, 1977) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Justin Taylor on the Showtime drama Queer as Folk.

Early life and college

Harrison was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, but moved to Alpharetta, Georgia with his family at age eleven. He attended Pace Academy, a private prep school in Atlanta. His father is an executive with a large paper company, while he has described his mother as a “thwarted artist.” His only sibling, an older brother, is a bank manager.

Harrison attended the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theatre. During his time at CCM, Harrison starred in university productions such as Hello Again, Shopping and Fucking, and Children of Eden. He also had roles in other theatrical venues across the U.S., in productions such as Violet at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1776 at the St. Louis Municipal Theatre and West Side Story at the Forestburg Playhouse, as well as productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Real Inspector Hound and A Cheever Evening.

Career

Harrison made his television debut playing Justin Taylor, a gay teen, in 2000’s American version of Queer as Folk, based on the British television series. The series ran for five seasons, ending in 2005. In 2002, Harrison played the character Sean in Bang Bang You’re Dead, a made-for-television movie based on the play of the same name. Harrison stars as Brutus in cinematographer/director/writer Patrick Donelley’s postmodern feature film adaptation of Julius Caesar opposite actor John Shea as the title role.

In 2002, Harrison starred in the play Deviant at the New York International Fringe Festival. In summer 2004, Harrison made his Broadway debut as Boq in the musical Wicked. His Off Broadway credits include A Letter for Ethel Kennedy (MCC Theatre, 2002), the Father in Oak Tree (Perry Street Theatre, 2006), Young Spencer in Edward II (Red Bull Theatre, 2007–08), Eros in Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience, 2008), Laszlo Fickes/Gerhardt Zeitzler in A Singing Forest (Public Theatre, 2009), and Kevin Adams-Weller in Harbor (Primary Stages, 2013). Harrison has also done several staged readings for Red Bull Theatre and starred in their “In the Raw” workshop production of A Tyger’s Heart in February 2011.

Harrison has a substantial résumé in regional theatre, most prominently as a featured player since 2005 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Roles with BTF include Alan Strang in Equus (2005), the title role in Amadeus (2006), Bill Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2007), Frank Gardner in Mrs. Warren’s Profession (2007), Lucky in Waiting for Godot (2008), Osvald Alving in Ghosts (2009), Nagg in Endgame (2010), and the title character in The Who’s “Tommy” (2011). Other regional theatre credits include Lysander/Thisbe/Cobweb in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented in spring 2006 by the SITI Company (where Harrison has studied extensively through Skidmore College and in Manhattan); Tom in the Guthrie Theater’s production of The Glass Menagerie (2007); Andy Warhol in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Pop! (2009); Sebastian in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Twelfth Night (2010); Tim in the Studio Theatre’s production of Habit of Art; and Ken in the George Street Playhouse’s production of Red (2012).

In 2006, Harrison co-founded the Arts Bureau (tAB) [1], an umbrella organization encompassing theatre, film, music, and writing. In July 2007, he starred in tAB’s first production, a heartwarming story, ultimately, based on the work of Anton Chekhov. In late 2007/early 2008, Harrison shot and starred in the first tAB short film,Thinking, which has been shown at several film festivals. In Summer 2008, tAB shot its first feature film Lorton Lake.

Personal life

Harrison, who is openly gay, dated Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco from 2002 to 2008; the two met when Dumenco interviewed Harrison for a New York magazine cover story. As of December 2009, Harrison lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his cats Ella and Aggie.

Theater

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Oliver Child Chorus
1987 Music Man Winthrop
Hello Again Young Thing University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

Music (CCM)

Shopping and Fucking Robbie University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

Music (CCM)

Children of Eden Abel University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

Music (CCM)

The Hot Mikado Gentleman from Japan University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

Music (CCM)

Rags University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of

Music (CCM)

1999 Violet Billy Dean Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati
1999 1776 The Courier St. Louis Municipal Theater
Grease St. Louis Municipal Theater
Anything Goes St. Louis Municipal Theater
West Side Story Action Forestburg Playhouse
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Benjamin Forestburg Playhouse
Babes in Arms Lee Calhoun Forestburg Playhouse
Cabaret Forestburg Playhouse
The Real Inspector Hound
A Cheever Evening
2002 Deviant
2004 Wicked Boq
2005 Equus Alan Strang Berkshire Theatre Festival
2006 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Lysander/Thisbe/Cobweb
2006 Amadeus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Berkshire Theatre Festival
2006 An Oak Tree The father
A Letter From Ethel Kennedy
2007 The Glass Menagerie Young Tom Guthrie Theater
2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Billy Bibbit Berkshire Theatre Festival
2007 Mrs. Warren’s Profession Frank Gardner Berkshire Theatre Festival
2007/2008 Edward the Second Young Spencer
2008 Antony and Cleopatra Eros April/May
2008 Waiting for Godot Lucky Summer
Berkshire Theatre Festival
2009 The Singing Forest Laszlo Fickes/Gerhardt Zeitzler April/May
The Public Theater
2009 Ghosts Oswald Summer
Berkshire Theatre Festival
2009 POP! Andy Warhol Fall
Yale Repertory Theatre
2010 Caligula by Albert Camus Scipio January
Red Bull Theatre Revelations Reading
2010 Endgame Nagg Summer
Berkshire Theatre Festival
2011 The Who’s Tommy Tommy Summer
Berkshire Theatre Festival
2011 The Habit of Art Tim Fall
The Studio Theatre
2012 Red Ken January 31 – February 26 at George Street Playhouse
March 23 – April 4 at Allen Theatre, Cleveland
2012 Silence! The Musical Dr. Chilton July 18 – September 9 at Elektra Theater, NYC
2013 Harbor Kevin July 23 – September 8
by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, NYC
2014 Atomic Musical Paul Tibbets and Edward Teller June 26 – August 16
The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
2014 Amadeus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October 9 – 26 Ensemble Theater Co. at The New Vic, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 Cabaret Emcee January 26, 2016 – February 19, 2017 Roundabout Theater Co. Nat’l Tour
2017 Sunday in the Park with George George June 17 – August 20, 2017 Guthrie Theater
2017 Rocky Horror Show Frank-N-Furter 13-29 October, 2017 Bucks County Playhouse
2018 Angels in America Prior Walter April 17 – July 22, 2018
Berkeley Rep
2018 Christmas on the Rocks Tiny Tim,
Charlie Brown,
Ralphie, Hermie 		27 Nov- 23 Dec,2018
Theater Works Hartford
2019 Cabaret Emcee 17 Jul – 10 Aug, 2019

Ogunquit Playhouse

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