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), for which 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). Prior to coming to QC, 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. As a writer, Ralph’s play, The Invaders: A Freedom Summer Play, which tells the story of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project and the murders of three activists by the Ku Klux Klan (including Queens College student Andrew Goodman), had its world-premiere reading in June 2024. Currently pursuing a B.A. in Italian, Ralph is writing the book and lyrics to a new musical entitled La cena (The Dinner) that celebrates Italy’s food culture. He is also currently translating and adapting Carlo Goldoni’s The Comic Theatre. Beyond theatre, Ralph is a baseball historian whose research has appeared in the The New York Times, on CBS Evening News, and on History this Week, the flagship podcast of The History Channel.