Larry Randolph has been in the theater all his life. He first stepped on stage while in the sixth grade at Belle Grove Elementary in Fort Smith, Ark., and blew a trumpet blast announcing the entrance of Queen Mab and her court. "I wasn't very good," he says, "but I worked real hard and became very loud. I would practice in the backyard. The mortality rate of the neighbors' chickens took a sudden spike upward. Heart attacks from sheer terror I should imagine." Randolph has also been a university professor at both Purdue and Texas Tech and a guest director in many professional theaters across the country. As an actor, he had a three-year, 1200-performance run of Greater Tuna in San Francisco. His play The Crosspatch has been an active staple in Dramatic Publishing's catalog for more than three decades and has been performed in every English-speaking country in the world.
