Projects

• Directed Blest be the Tie by Doña Daley (2004). "Daley's concerns emerge naturally through her characters rather than hammering an agenda, and director Paulette Randall (whose Talawa company here co-produces with the Royal Court) gets her cast – Marion Bailey, Lorna Gayle and Ellen Thomas – to turn in performances which all engage in different ways." http://www.cix.co.uk/~shutters/reviews/04029.htm
• Directed What's in the Cat by Linda Brogan (2005) "What's in the Cat is painfully slow for its first 45 minutes but once the knives are drawn, picks up to become a fascinating kitchen-sink drama about the life of a highly volatile, mixed-race family in Manchester in the 1970s." http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/whatcat-rev.htm

• Directed Urban Afro Saxons (2003). "Talawa's latest production is subtitled 'What Makes You British?' and is a timely contribution to the controversial debate spawned not only by Blunkett's proposed citizenship tests but the burning questions raised by racism in the police force."http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/urban-rev.htm
• Directed The Blues for Mr Charlie, by James Baldwin
  James Baldwin (writer)
  James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America,...
  
  , 2004. "Blues For Mr Charlie may last for around three hours but the tension never drops. It would make a tremendous contribution to any debate on racism and its most terrifying facet is that it is set merely a generation ago."http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/bluescharlie-rev.htm
• Directed Gem of the Ocean (2003, Los Angeles; 2004, New York; 2006, London) "... the scene is brilliantly staged, complete with chanting and gospel singing, as it re-enacts a slave-ship journey back to the African ancestral home.". http://www.curtainup.com/gemoftheoceanlond.html

• Produced Desmonds (1989).
• Produced Porkpie
  Porkpie (TV series)
  Porkpie was a British sitcom on Channel 4 television starring Ram John Holder as Augustus 'Porkpie' Grant. It was a spinoff from Desmond's...
  
  (1995).
• Produced the second series of The Crouches
  The Crouches
  The Crouches is a sitcom which aired on BBC One between 2003 and 2005. The show stars Rudolph Walker, who played Robbie Gee's father, and Mona Hammond, who played Jo's mother. Also other main casts were Robbie Gee and Jo Martin. The show was not well received by critics and only two series were...
  
  (2004-2005). "The first series of this sitcom wasn't seen by many and was critically mauled by the press, the BBC gave it a second chance and used new writers for series 2." http://www.sitcom.co.uk/crouches/index.shtml

External links

• Sweat is Fine - You don't have to have blood, The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  , Monday January 2, 2006
• It's Boom Time for Black Theatre, but Will it Last?, The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
  
  , April 4, 2004
• IMDB entry for Paulette Randall