Randi is a conductor, music director, and collaborative pianist currently based in San Diego, California. She is so grateful to be here working on this show with Katie and the incredible cast, band, and crew. Recent MD credits include Next to Normal (OTC), Elf (The Welk) 42nd Street (Moonlight), A Chorus Line, Daddy Long Legs (The Phoenix Theatre Company); Tour: Beetlejuice (Keyboard Sub), The Prom (Associate MD). She has received the Louis J. Sudler Prize in Music for conducting, and was named a semifinalist in The American Prize competition for her work in musical theater conducting. Outside of conducting and piano, she enjoys composing and practicing on other instruments including the violin, guitar, and harpsichord. Randi recently completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting at Arizona State University, where she researched rhythmic notation in Broadway pop rock scores. She received her Masters of Music in Conducting from Ithaca College and her Bachelors of Arts in Music from Stanford University. “This must be the mission of every human of goodwill: to insist, unflaggingly, at risk of becoming a repetitive bore, but to insist on the achievement of a world in which the mind will have triumphed over violence.” – Leonard Bernstein.