Ronald Rand is an American stage and film actor, educator, director, playwright, librettist, producer, and newspaper publisher. A U.S. Cultural Goodwill Ambassador, founder and publisher of the newspaper, The Soul of the American Actor, he is also the author of Create: How Extraordinary People Live to Create and Create to Live, Acting Teachers of America, "The Marsh in May and 30 Poems with 29 Paintings by Ronald Rand, and Solo Transformation on Stage: A Journey into the Organic Process of the Art of Transformation.