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Associate Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communications, 2010-2015
As Associate Dean in BYU’s College of Fine Arts and Communications, I facilitated multiple conversations with Utah’s Deans of Education and Deans of Fine Arts across the State on how we might most effectively prepare the best teachers for Utah’s children.
Chair and one of three founding faculty, Music Dance Theatre Major 1982-2020
The Music Dance Theatre (MDT) program is an interdisciplinary degree offered by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. It is a limited enrollment program designed to train performers for a career in musical theatre and related performance disciplines. The School of Music, the Department of Dance, and the Department of Theatre and Media Arts have combined their resources to create an accredited course of study by NASM, NASD, and NAST leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree.
44 years BYU faculty, 1978-2020
Working as a BYU faculty member, I have led hundreds of students on educational tours to 42 countries. With the world as our campus, we have met with and taught school children and teachers around the globe. My students would describe me as a “life-long learner” with great excitement for this planet we call home.
Young Ambassadors on tour in Beijing, China.
Randy sings and dances with a young girl in South Korea
Young Ambassador hugs new friends after a community service project in Zimbabwe.
Young Ambassadors are welcomed to Rustov Veliky in Russia with traditional greeting of bread and salt.
The BYU Young Ambassadors on their recent tour to Brazil
Directors Randy Boothe and Janielle Christensen interview on CGTN with Culture Express anchor Julian Waghann in China for the BYU China Spectacular in 2019.
Students worked with an elephant sanctuary guide to give Randy quite the surprise while on tour in Thailand.
Young Ambassadors Tanner and Preston share a book with a young boy at an orphanage in Zimbabwe.
Music Director for 18 BYU Mainstage productions
· The Christmas Box, 1997
· Pirates of Penzance, 1995
· Anything Goes, Fall 1994
· Guys and Dolls, Winter 1992
· City of Peace, Fall 1990
· 1940's Radio Hour, Fall 1988
· Sunday in the Park, Fall 1986
· Trixie True, Teen Detective, Summer 1983
· Music Director, Composer: Rump, 2019
· Music Director: Into the Woods, 2017
· Troy, the Musical, 2016
· Casey At the Bat, 2009
· Thoroughly Modern Millie, 2008
· Aida, 2005
· Smokey Joe’s Café, 2004
· Crazy For You, 2003
· Children of Eden, 1999
BYU MDT alumni have performed around the world in thousands of professional productions from community theatre to film to Broadway.