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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

Director and producer Paulette Randall, a woman with cropped hair wearing over-sized black-rimmed glasses

Paulette Randall

A pioneering West End director and producer Dr Paulette Randall was Associate Director for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Randall is known for directing a huge number of popular television shows including Coronation Street, Waterloo Road, Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Death in Paradise, Casualty, Holby City, The Real McCoy, Desmonds and many more.

Her many theatre credits include The Fellowship (Hampstead Theatre), Doctor Faustus (The Globe), Love Letters to the NHS (National Theatre Wales), Obama-ology (RADA), Rudy’s Rare Records (Birmingham Rep and Hackney Empire) and Fences (Theatre Royal Bath and West End).

In 2015 Randall was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors list for her services to drama.