"Queer as Folk" Star to Visit Rutgers-Camden for Public Dialogue

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN –  Randy Harrison, who played Justin Taylor on Showtime’s Queer as Folk, will be featured in the free, public dialogue “Inside the Rutgers Studio: Randy Harrison” at Rutgers University—Camden at 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12.

Harrison earned a musical theater degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2000, the same year Queer as Folk debuted in the U.S. In 2004, Harrison made his Broadway debut as “Boq” in the wildly successful musical Wicked. Currently, Harrison manages the nonprofit the Arts Bureau, which he cofounded in New York City. 

The dialogue, which will feature scenes from the hit show and Harrison's current project, will be moderated by Kenneth Elliott, an assistant professor of theater at Rutgers–Camden, where he is directing this fall’s student production of Dracula.

What kind of advice will Harrison offer new actors anxious to break into the scene? “Be an actor, not a passive form,” he says. “Don’t rely on directors or agents.  Find your own work.”

Co-sponsored by the Rutgers–Camden Office of Campus Involvement and the Department of Fine Arts, the event will take place in the Gordon Theater, located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.

For directions to Rutgers–Camden, visit camden.rutgers.edu.