Randy Kovitz

ADJUNCT FACULTY, ACTING

“Living in discovery is always preferable to living in assumption.”
Rick Rubin

Randy has taught numerous classes for the School of Drama, including Comedy, Chekov, Greeks, the Business of Acting, and Film Appreciation. He has directed productions and staged numerous fight scenes for the department, served as a faculty advisor on a number of student directed short films, and he created the Acting for the Camera curriculum, which he has taught for 15 years. He also produces, directs and edits the video content for the Acting and MT Showcase process.

Randy Kovitz is a veteran actor with credits across the entertainment industry. He trained at the CMU School of Drama under Earle Gister, Israel Hicks, Jewel Walker, Leon Katz, Tim Monich and B.H. Barry. Since that time, he has worked as both an actor and fight director in theater, film and television in New York, Los Angeles and in between.

As and educator, Randy has taught at NYU, SUNY Purchase, and the Yale School of Drama.

Randy’s film work includes roles in Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Fault in Our Stars, Concussion, Dawn of The Dead, Knightriders, The Addams Family, Basic Psych, Hello Beautiful and many others. His TV credits include The Chair, American Rust, Archive 81, The Blacklist, Parks and Recreation, Z: The Beginning of Everything, Seinfeld, E.R., The King of Queens and The Practice, among many others. On Broadway he appeared in Burn This, Othello and Macbeth at Lincoln Center. His regional appearances include Yale Rep, The Los Angeles Theater Center, The American Shakespeare Theater in Stratford Connecticut and the Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Randy is also a fight director with credits in Broadway and regional theater, film and TV, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mark Taper Forum/Center Theater Group productions of Angels in America and The Kentucky Cycle, among many hundreds of other projects. He is also an award-winning screenwriter and film director; his films have played in festivals nationwide. His feature directing debut, Validity is in post-production and should be released in late 2024 or early 2025.