Author - Ronald Rand

Ronald Rand is a US Cultural Ambassador and award-winning Solo Performing Artist performing for 25 years in his award-winning performance as Harold Clurman in his solo play, “LET IT BE ART!” in 30 countries, twenty-one states, at more than a hundred theaters, universities, colleges and international festivals, five tours across India, and in three critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway productions. Ronald’s poetry has been published in different poetry collections and his plays are performed around the world. While at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he studied at the Arts Student League in New York City with John Groth and several other teachers. His artwork has been exhibited in New York City, and across the country in museums, libraries and special exhibitions. The State Department and Fulbright Program awarded Ronald Rand four Fulbright Awards as a Fulbright Specialist Scholar/Visiting Guest Professor in Malaysia, Uruguay, Greece, and Bosnia & Herzegovina. He is the Founder & Publisher of “The Soul of the American Actor,” and the author of Solo Transformation on Stage, Acting Teachers of America, CREATE!, and The Marsh in May and 30 Poems with 29 paintings by Ronald Rand. Ronald Rand is the Librettist of IBSEN, the first opera written about Henrik Ibsen, and the screenwriter of GROUP PARADISE, the first film about the famed Group Theatre of the 1930s. He has appeared in several Off-Broadway plays and regional productions, and in over a hundred films and TV shows including opposite Sean Connery and Dustin Hoffman in Family Business, Angelica Huston in When in Rome, Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, Yoko Ono in Homeless, Christopher Plummer in O’Keefe & Stieglitz, and Ralph Fiennes and Paul Scofield in Quiz Show directed by Robert Redford. An internationally acclaimed Stage Director, Master Acting Teacher, he has been a Visiting Guest Professor at more than fifty universities, colleges, and acting schools on five continents.  LetItBeArt.com – SoulAmericanActor.com – IBSENopera.com – CreatetheBook.com