Brandon Raghu

Director of Operations

Brandon is a local and regional theater artist and business professional. He is highly focused on promoting an equitable workplace for theater artists to strive and succeed. His current project is developing a sustainable financial framework for smaller tier professional theaters. Brandon has collaborated with local theaters including the Guthrie Theater, Capri Theater, Lakeshore Players, Theatre in the Round, Arts Nest, Children’s Performing Arts, Wisconsin Shakespeare, and the Fairmont Opera House. As a business professional, Brandon has recently achieved successful collaborations with large companies ranging from Life Time to local nonprofits including the St. Paul Art Collective. Brandon graduated with an undergrad double degree in Theatre and Psychology and is enrolled in Harvard online school of business.

Brandon is also Yellow Tree Theatre’s resident Production Manager and a freelance director. Recent credits including Toil and Trouble at Yellow Tree Theatre and Improbable Fiction at the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival where he will direct in repertory. Other select directing titles include A Christmas Story, Snow Queen, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Marriage Proposal, Secret Muse, Filthy Animals, Female Nude Seated, Little House on the Prairie, Mamma Mia. Brandon also works as an Assistant Director with credits including Skeleton Crew, Ain’t Misbehavin, Misery, Clue, and Cabaret.

As a production manager, Brandon has overseen credits including Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Rats and the Wasp’s Nest, Every Christmas Story ever told (and then some), Toil and Trouble, The Last Flapper, Seven Keys, and Once Upon A Time…Josephine Baker!