Biography
Randy Barbato is an American director, producer and writer. With Fenton Bailey he co-founded the production company World of Wonder. The pair attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts before forming the experimental music group The Fabulous Pop Tarts.
Barbato and Bailey directed the documentary Party Monster: The Shockumentary (1998) and its 2003 feature adaptation Party Monster. Their other directing credits include Inside Deep Throat (2005), Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010) and Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016). Barbato has produced the long-running series RuPaul's Drag Race (2009–) and the film Stop! That! Train! (2026).
He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards.
