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Raz Golden is a director of theatre, film, and audio. His work employs fiction to seek out the strange truths embedded in our history and the world around us. With a deep belief in art’s ability to illuminate complex subjects like anthropology, public policy and the natural sciences, his process employs investigative research, collage, spectacle, and heightened language to define and disrupt the distance between the realities of our outer world and the imaginations of our inner ones.
Raz has developed new and classical work with Clubbed Thumb, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Playwright’s Realm, Playwrights’ Horizons, Red Bull Theatre, Second Stage, the Mercury Store, the Public Theatre, Juilliard Drama, and NYU Tisch. He is the 2026 National Black Theatre Directing Resident, and currently a commissioned artist under the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. He was a 2023 NYTW 2050 Fellow and a 2019 Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. He has directed music videos for indie music artists and helped create several radio plays for WNYC studios.
Directing: The Rose Tattoo (UNCSA), Julius Caesar (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), The Seven by Will Power (Juilliard Drama) Smote This (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), What the Constitution Means to Me (Weston Theatre Company), Orestes (SUNY Purchase), How to Catch Creation (Juilliard), Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues (Shakes & Co.), Orestes, We Are Proud to Present… (Purchase), The Mountaintop (Weston), Queen of the Night, a new play by travis tate (Dorset), Macbeth, (HVSF),
Resident/Associate/Assistant Directing: KENREX (dir. Ed Stambollouian, The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. Kip Williams) Romeo+Juliet, An Enemy of the People (dir. Sam Gold), Good Night, Oscar (dir. Lisa Peterson), Macbeth (dir. Sam Gold), Romeo y Julieta, Shipwreck, Richard II (dir. Saheem Ali)
Currently On Stage: Smote This, Oregon Shakespeare Festival