LGBTQ+ Arts, Culture & Music in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ben Villegas Randle

Artistic Director, New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC)

Ben Villegas Randle is the Artistic Director of New Conservatory Theatre Center, where his directing work dates back to 2013 and includes the West Coast premiere of JC Lee's To My Girls in 2025. Before settling in the Bay Area he spent seven years in New York, where he was the 2019 Drama League Leo Shull Musical Theatre Directing Fellow and a 2017-18 Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow. He is an SF State graduate and a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, and he directed NCTC's 2026 revival of Little Shop of Horrors.