He has headlined with Neil Patrick Harris in Montreal, won Outstanding Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, starred on his own Netflix show in the UK, and been nominated (controversially) for an ACCTA Award, the Australian equivalent of an Emmy. Now felt-faced performance sensation RANDY sets his sights on conquering the US with the Off-Broadway premiere of RANDY WRITES A NOVEL.

After being married, divorced, arrested, kidnapped and thrown from a moving hovercraft, occasionally sober entertainer Randy has just written his first novel and he wants to share a staged reading of it with you. Cursed with stage fright, he begins rambling and ends up sharing a memorable – and very funny, not to mention very adult – discourse on everything from Buddhist thought to the wisdom of McDonald’s home delivery service to whether Hemingway’s artistic genius was enough to compensates for him being a terrible human being. Randy may share the complexion of Barney the Dinosaur, but RANDY WRITES A NOVEL promises to leave you questioning the meaning of life.

It’s time to face your fears and have a good laugh at them because Randy, a purple Australian puppet, is at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row to share his own fears in his one-man show, Randy Writes A Novel. With a countenance and potty mouth straight from Avenue Q, Randy spins a good yarn while endearing himself to his audience, no matter how willing they are to participate. Standing behind his desk, complete with typewriter, surrounded by piles of books, Randy attempts to read from the newly finished draft of his novel, “Walking to Skye.” While ostensibly a comedy show — Randy does everything from crowd work to telling jokes about flying to breathlessly spouting off Ernest Hemingway’s entire biography in five minutes — it turns out Randy Writes A Novel is actually about the existential dilemma of figuring out what your legacy will be after you die. In other words, great fodder for comedy! It turns out the subject of his very show is Randy’s greatest fear — the prospect of reading his novel aloud freaks him out. The fear of rejection, the criticism, the negation of years of hard work is almost too much for him to bear. So while bracing himself to read from his novel, Randy dis …Read more