Randal K West has been a professional in Film/TV for many years. He is also a professional in Theatre and Musical Theatre. He has been a Director, Producer and Writer in both fields. Early on he was the Theatre Coordinator for the City of Phoenix for 5 years and while he was in that position he came to know Stephen Sondheim, was invited to be a collaborator on re-working his musical “Merrily We Roll Along” with playwright George Furth and he directed the pre-Broadway workshop production. Sondheim suggested he relocate to San Francisco and Randy spent 9 years as the Executive Vice President, General Manager, and Creative Director for the Video Program Network while also directing musical theatre throughout the Bay Area. Television brought him back to Southern California and he spent the next three years doing theatre and television in his boyhood stomping grounds. He then took his family and moved to Fairfield, Iowa where he spent 14 years as first the Vice President Creative Director of a national advertising agency and then 7 years as the Executive /Artist Director of Way Off Broadway which was Iowa’s only professional musical theatre company and the residential company at the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, (yes Steve continues to be the gift that keeps on giving to Randy). He has been married to Margaret Clair for 29 years and is the proud father of Joshua, William and Gareth.