Randall Huskinson

Playwright & Producer splitting time between Salt Lake City and the UK (London, Manchester).

Triple-award winner at the 2022 Marsh Int’l Solo Festival for his show Out of the Mormon Closet, playwright Randall Huskinson embodies the playwright’s mantra to “write what you know,” and often looks to inspiration from his history growing up as a gay, Mormon potato farmer.

Huskinson’s play WAR BRIDE received a workshop and staged reading (equiv NYC 29-hour) at HOME in Manchester, England, in Nov. 2024, directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder, supported by a generous grant from Arts Council England. The piece received two public staged readings under Hart Theatre Co. in Salt Lake City in April 2024. The piece was a recent semi-finalist in the NYC TRU Voices festival.

In addition to adult-focused...

Playwright & Producer splitting time between Salt Lake City and the UK (London, Manchester).

Triple-award winner at the 2022 Marsh Int’l Solo Festival for his show Out of the Mormon Closet, playwright Randall Huskinson embodies the playwright’s mantra to “write what you know,” and often looks to inspiration from his history growing up as a gay, Mormon potato farmer.

Huskinson’s play WAR BRIDE received a workshop and staged reading (equiv NYC 29-hour) at HOME in Manchester, England, in Nov. 2024, directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder, supported by a generous grant from Arts Council England. The piece received two public staged readings under Hart Theatre Co. in Salt Lake City in April 2024. The piece was a recent semi-finalist in the NYC TRU Voices festival.

In addition to adult-focused work, Huskinson also writes TYA—Theatre for Young Audiences.

Huskinson is an also an ardent audience member. During 2023, he attended 100+ theatre productions.

Huskinson is honored to have served as a judge for the Utah (and previously San Diego) region's preliminaries for the Jimmy Awards program, and considers it a unique experience that both allows him to give back while recognizing his expertise in the musical theatre genre gained through a lifetime of involvement in the arts.

Knowing that the fastest way to get produced is to produce your own work, Huskinson has studied commercial production under Tony Award-winning producer Jane Dubin and UK producing expert Chris Grady.

While he’s been involved in just about every aspect of the theatre from acting to producing and front of house,
Huskinson comes to play writing following a distinguished career as a journalist and copywriter.

When he's not writing, you'll find Huskinson cycling, traveling, cooking, cuddling with the cat, or playing his beloved grand piano, a Yamaha G5.

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Scripts

War Bride

by Randall Huskinson

3
Cast Size
7
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
period,
tragedy

Think DOUBT + HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE + HANDMAID'S TALE + REAL LIVES of MORMON WIVES

An underdog, outsider mom’s fight to save her daughter, and ultimately herself, from an abusive patriarchy and community where alternate facts are a way of life.

Trudy Thompson, a British convert to the Mormon Church, lives with her husband Ammon their daughter Eliza among Ammon’s loyal-to-a-fault family—all of them ultra...

Think DOUBT + HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE + HANDMAID'S TALE + REAL LIVES of MORMON WIVES

An underdog, outsider mom’s fight to save her daughter, and ultimately herself, from an abusive patriarchy and community where alternate facts are a way of life.

Trudy Thompson, a British convert to the Mormon Church, lives with her husband Ammon their daughter Eliza among Ammon’s loyal-to-a-fault family—all of them ultra-devout Mormons. When young Eliza reveals an explosive secret about the family’s revered patriarch, chaos ensues and Trudy is forced to make decisions that will shake their family—and herself— to the core.

This piece, set within a religious sect that continually intrigues the curious public, hits on topics that are as urgent and challenging in 2026 as they have ever been.

DEVELOPMENT
*2025: Equity table read, The Edge Theatre, Manchester, UK.
*2024: Equity (equiv 29-hour) workshop and industry reading, HOME theatre, Manchester, UK; directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder.
*2024: Semi-finalist TRU Voices, NYC
*2024: Staged Reading, Hart Theatre Co. Salt Lake City.
*2023: Table Read, Hart Theatre Company, Salt Lake City.
*2022: Dramaturgy work under Dominick LaRuffa (NYC) & Rob Ward (Manchester UK).
2020-21: Initial writing, private development reading, invited audience reading (Zoom).

NOTE: This script was previously titled "War Bride of Mormon County," which may return depending on marketing needs.

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Chill Out Yeti!

by Randall Huskinson

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
immersive

Abo is a young yeti who is too hot and wants to go back home where life is more chill! Abo has traveled (by tunnel!!) with their parents from their home in YetMalaya to Sasquatchia, on the other side of the world, for the 30-year convention of the SoFoSnoMoSwaFo, which includes yeti, sasquatch, swamp creatures, etc. The focus of the conference is whether or not the SoFoSnoMoSwaFo should finally make contact with...

Abo is a young yeti who is too hot and wants to go back home where life is more chill! Abo has traveled (by tunnel!!) with their parents from their home in YetMalaya to Sasquatchia, on the other side of the world, for the 30-year convention of the SoFoSnoMoSwaFo, which includes yeti, sasquatch, swamp creatures, etc. The focus of the conference is whether or not the SoFoSnoMoSwaFo should finally make contact with the H.H....the horrible humans...who are doing things to cause the yeti's glacier homeland to melt, and causing heat that affects every part of all SoFoSnoMoSwaFo beings' existence. While the adults debate things, Abo wanders off and meets (gasp) a young human...inside an ice cream truck. What could go wrong? What could go right? Can a young yeti and a young human conspire to find even a tiny way to combat the too-hot planet so everyone can get back to chilling out?

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Under the Family Bus

by Randall Huskinson

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
satire

Sequins. Vaccines. Theme parks. Porn. You know…just another Covid family chat.

Think THE HUMANS + EUREKA DAY.

It’s Covid quarantine time in January 2021, and the Pierce family has weekly online video chats. Inspired by the absurdist-reality of family video calls during Covid lockdowns, UNDER THE FAMLY BUS brings out the best and worst between a mother and her three adult children—all of whom hide secrets that...

Sequins. Vaccines. Theme parks. Porn. You know…just another Covid family chat.

Think THE HUMANS + EUREKA DAY.

It’s Covid quarantine time in January 2021, and the Pierce family has weekly online video chats. Inspired by the absurdist-reality of family video calls during Covid lockdowns, UNDER THE FAMLY BUS brings out the best and worst between a mother and her three adult children—all of whom hide secrets that could derail a post-vaccination family gathering. Mom announces she’s secured a coveted vaccination appointment and is planning her 70th birthday party. The oldest son announces he’s not “getting chipped….” then a virus on his computer starts feeding porn into the family chat. Secrets are revealed, bouncing between laugh-out-loud comedy and grab-a-tissue drama, climaxing with a gathering that reveals even bigger shocks and surprises.
This piece is blazingly important right now: unpacking some of the craziness of our immediate past and learning to laugh at the bonkers period we’ve survived can help us all heal. UNDER THE FAMILY BUS is powerful, important, funny and entertaining theatre.

NOTE: renamed from "The Variants."

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Visits with Blanche Devereaux

by Randall Huskinson

1
Cast Size
5—6
Genre
drama,
movement/physical,
tragedy

A darkly funny family drama set inside an assisted-living facility, Visits with Blanche Devereaux follows a volatile, middle-aged son who believes his stepfather owes him a lifetime of restitution—just as his mother's dementia worsens, his gay brother meddles, and time runs out. As blame curdles into desperation, one man’s refusal to take responsibility drives the family toward an irreversible reckoning.

A darkly funny family drama set inside an assisted-living facility, Visits with Blanche Devereaux follows a volatile, middle-aged son who believes his stepfather owes him a lifetime of restitution—just as his mother's dementia worsens, his gay brother meddles, and time runs out. As blame curdles into desperation, one man’s refusal to take responsibility drives the family toward an irreversible reckoning.