Subsequently, Rand also studied with Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Joseph Chaikin, with Jerzy Grotowski at Columbia University, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's summer program in London.
"[19] Rand's odyssey as Harold Clurman began with his first performance of his play, "Let It Be Art" directed by Gregory Abels, at the Sande Shurin Theatre in New York City in 2001.
Rand made his New York debut in 1978 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as a member of the cast of Julius Caesar with Richard Dreyfuss, George Rose, Austin Pendleton, René Auberjonois, and Tom Hulce.
In 2017 he became the first Fulbright Specialist Scholar to teach four 7-hour master acting workshops using Constantin Stanislavsky's "Method of Physical Actions" chart for five weeks at the Taller de Teatro in Paysandu, Uruguay, and taught two workshops for ages nine to fifteen at the Family Instituto y Colegio de Inglés in Paysandu, performed in his solo play, and directed an adaptation of the play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder in Spanish with Spanish actors.
[45][46] Rand has conducted over 1000 interviews including Alec Baldwin, Theodore Bikel, Lee Blessing, Claire Bloom, Kate Burton, Rita Gam, Andre Gregory, George Grizzard, Charles Grodin, A.R.
Gurney, Marcia Gay Harden, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Geoffrey Holder, Celeste Holm, Anjelica Huston, Valerie Harper, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Judith Ivey, Kevin Kline, Jackie Mason, Terrence Mann, Lloyd Richards, Cliff Robertson, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Weller, and Elie Wiesel.
[47] Essays have included those by Stella Adler, Edward Albee, Harold Clurman, Eugenio Barba, William Esper, Jerzy Grotowski, James Earl Jones, Laurence Luckinbill, Sanford Meisner, Arthur Miller, and Lee Strasberg.
How Extraordinary People Live to Create and Create to Live, Finalist for the Indies Book of the Year Awards for Performing Arts & Music and Finalist in the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards, is a collection of over 100 interviews exploring the creative process of many of the world's most acclaimed actors, actresses, artists, choreographers, composers & lyricists, dancers, directors, educators, musicians, playwrights, poets, singers, and writers of our time, including Carol Burnett, Ellen Burstyn, Martha Carpenter, Dick Cavett, Brian Cox, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Katherine Dunham, Michael Frayn, Kelsey Grammer, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, Julie Harris, Chaka Khan, Odile Gakire Katese, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Stephen Lang, Jane Maxwell, Patricia Neal, Jerry Orbach, Christopher Plummer, Luise Rainer, Tony Randall, Phylicia Rashad, Chita Rivera, Apriana Taylor, Ben Vereen, Sir Derek Walcott, Robert Wilson, and Eugenia Zukerman.
[50][51][52][53][54] His second book is Acting Teachers of America[55] with interviews of one hundred influential acting teachers, actors, and directors in America, including Anne Bogart, Steve Buscemi, Olympia Dukakis, Zelda Fichandler, James Gandolfini, Gene Hackman, Michael Howard, William Hurt, Michael Kahn, Milton Katselas, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Sidney Poitier, and Terry Schreiber.
[56] Rand's third book, Solo Transformation on Stage: A Journey into the Organic Process of the Art of Transformation, includes a foreword by Stephen Lang, Ronald Rand's two-hour transformation into Harold Clurman, Rand's personal experiences with his teachers, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, and Jerzy Grotowski, life-changing ‘moments of depth’ from some of the world's memorable performers including Cicely Tyson, Paul Robeson, Ira Aldridge, James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, John Barrymore, Laurette Taylor, and Marlon Brando, and over twenty interviews including Christopher Plummer, Eve Ensler, Ben Vereen, Billy Crudup, Adrienne Barbeau, Olympia Dukakis, Hershey Felder, Marga Gomez, Spalding Gray, Stephen Lang, Tony Lo Bianco, Laurence Luckinbill, Angelica Page, Elizabeth van Dyke, Jean-Claude van Itallie, and Julie Harris.
He directed an adaptation from the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder translated by Ilse Olivera into Spanish, (a language he does not speak), with actors of Paysandu.
[67] Rand directed and appeared in [[Voices from Chernobyl|A Meltdown from Chernobyl, The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster]] by Svetlana Alexievich, a dramatic adaptation by Spencer Smith with Frances Crowe, Ruth Hooke, Sister Jane Morrissey, and Jean-Claude van Itallie across northern New England at churches and meeting houses.
[68][69] Rand created and moderated a Drama Desk Panel Event, The Art of Storytelling, at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City, interviewing Bertie Carvel, Jayne Houdyshell, Kristine Nielsen, and David Hyde-Pierce.