London born Paulette Randall is a theatre and television director, playwright and former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company. After graduating from Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, Randall founded Theatre of Black Women with fellow students Bernadine Evaristo and Patricia St. Hilaire. She has worked extensively at the Tricycle Theatre, and at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. Other theatre credits include The Amen Corner (Bristol Old Vic), Sanctuary (Joint Stock) and For Coloured Girls who Considered Suicide when The Rainbow is Enuf (Battersea Arts Centre, Albany Empire).