Ralph Carhart

Ralph Carhart

Ralph Carhart has been the production manager for DTD since 2007, and has shepherded over 100 productions on QC stages in that time. He was the founder and artistic director of the Queens College Summer Performing Arts Festival (2010-2013), where he directed site specific productions of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet (the last at Flushing Town Hall). More recently, he has directed productions of Comedy of Errors, as well as All in the Timing (Ives), The Farnsworth Invention (Sorkin), Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Washburn), The Signal Season of Dummy Hoy (Meyer & Nowak), The Who’s Tommy, and Assassins (Sondheim), all for Buck’s Rock Performing Arts Camp. He was the founder and artistic director of Revolving Shakespeare Company, a NYC-based troupe that produced the works of The Bard, as well as contemporary works that were set in his worlds. RSC’s The Doctor of Rome (a sequel to The Merchant of Venice written by Nat Colley), was anthologized in Plays and Playwrights 2003 (ed. Denton) as one of the best off-off Broadway productions of the year. Ralph is also a baseball historian whose research has appeared in the The New York Times and on CBS Evening News and History this Week, the flagship podcast of The History Channel. His book The Hall Ball was published by McFarland in 2020, and he was the editor of the 2022 volume, Not an Easy Tale to Tell; Jackie Robinson on the Page, Stage and Screen. His new play, The Invaders: A Freedom Summer Play, is slated for its world-premiere reading in June 2024. It tells the story of the Mississippi Summer Project and the murders of three activists by the Ku Klux Klan, including Queens College student Andrew Goodman.