Patricia Randell

Actor in Theatre, Film, Television and Voice-Over

New York, New York, United States

About

Patricia Randell is represented for film, television and theatre by Josh Sassanella at ASA/The Ann Steele Agency (212.629.9112) and has worked Off and Off-Off-Broadway and at many of the major regional theatres in the country, for which she has received a significant amount of critical acclaim, most notably including SIX positive mentions in "The New York Times"​ (beginning with her Off-Broadway debut in the sold-out run of DURANG DURANG at Manhattan Theatre Club) among many other major critical forums. Her television credits include the Emmy nominated HBO film TOO BIG TO FAIL (starring William Hurt), MYSTERIES OF LAURA (starring Debra Messing) and almost every soap opera shot in NYC. Her films include ISLANDER (with Philip Baker Hall) and APPROACHING UNION SQUARE (Sundance Channel) and writer/director Paul Kelly's indie shorts MY DAY (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Award of Merit from Best Shorts Competition) and LAST WORDS (for which she won Best Supporting Actress from the Accolade Global Film Competition) and stars in episodes in the web-series THE ACTRESS and HAPPY HOUR FEMINISM. When not busy acting, she coaches privately here in NYC (focusing on Shakespeare and other classical work or contemporary material, as the situation requires) and has also taught acting seminars at Brooklyn College, Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYIT and The William Inge Center in KS. Specialties: Shakespeare/verse scansion, commercial voice-over, expert yoga practitioner, wide array of accents, experienced with the use of teleprompter and ear prompter

Experience

  • Associate Artistic Director at New River Dramatists
    Aug 2011 - Present · 15 yrs

  • Self (34 yrs 7 mos)
    • Actor
      1992 - Present · 34 yrs 7 mos

      PATRICIA RANDELL'S PRIVATE COACHING business has been built largely through personal referrals which she always appreciates. Former students have been accepted at Juilliard, NYU/Tisch, Yale, Boston University and The Hartt School, have received Drama Desk nominations and have booked jobs or gotten call-backs for episodes of TWO BROKE GIRLS, MYSTERIES OF LAURA, LAW AND ORDER, NYC theatres such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theatre Co. The Public and Ensemble Theatre Co. and regional theatres such as Florida Stage and Merrimack Stage. She has worked on countless Off and Off-Off-Broadway shows and appeared in even more readings of new work by notable emerging playwrights. Ms. Randell appeared in a major role at The Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway opposite Blythe Danner and Brian Dennehy in a one time only gala reading of MZ Ribalow's The Nature of the Universe to benefit ZazAngels.

    • writer
      Dec 2019 - Dec 2019 · 1 mo

      Workshop of NURSE RATCHED AND THE KING OF CANTERBURY STREET, a new play by Patricia Randell

  • Played the screenwriter/playwright Glyn in Jeannine Dominy's THE TRAINING CAGE at New York Theatre Festival
    Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 · 2 mos

    Played the striking Writer's Guild Member Glyn in a short play about the Writers/SAG/AFTRA strike of 2025 by Jeannine Dominy, the screenwriter of DANGEROUS BEAUTY (starring Rufus Sewell and Oliver Platt), directed by Dominy and co-starring Mollie O'Mara and Mike Timoney and presented by the New York Theatre Festival at Teatro Latea.

  • Played "The Actress" in John Cerna's sharp, funny and moving play. at It was presented at Pearl Studios
    May 2026 - May 2026 · 1 mo

    Industry reading of A SONG I'VE NEVER SUNG BEFORE by John Cerna, starring Christine Lahti and with Peter Gerety, Siobhan Fallon, Lou Liberatore, Haskell King and Patricia Randell.

  • Actor at Ensemble Studio Theatre
    Dec 2025 - Jan 2026 · 2 mos

    Played Mrs. Zelda in playwright Matt Shvyrkov's short play ANNUNCIATION as part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood Company's LAST YEAR I GAVE YOU MY BRUNCH, directed by Robert Ross Parker and with a cast comprising Brett Epstein, Gilbert Cruz and Ellie Honneus.