---
name: "Randy Barbato"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/randy-barbato"
fi1m_id: "randy-barbato"
imdb_id: "nm0053190"
tmdb_id: 16958
wikidata_id: "Q24640016"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-03T02:20:27.733548+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Randy Barbato

## Identity

Randy Barbato

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/randy-barbato
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** randy-barbato
- **IMDb ID:** nm0053190
- **TMDB ID:** 16958
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24640016
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24640016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16958

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24640016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053190/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16958

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Stop! That! Train!*](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md) (63)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, variety.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md)
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-eyes-of-tammy-faye.md)

## Complete filmography (68)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *RuPaul's Drag Race UK: Rewind* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md)
- *Heals* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Manhood* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Murder in Glitterball City* (2026), series, Producer, Director
- *Dear Viv* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Little Pageant That Could* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Drag Me to the Movies* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Frybread Face and Me* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Chill with Phil* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *True Crime Story: Citizen Detective* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story* (2023), Producer
- *Raising a F***ing Star* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Bitch Who Stole Christmas* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Jimbo vs. Peas* (2021), Executive Producer
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-eyes-of-tammy-faye.md)
- *Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes* (2021), series, Director, Producer
- *Going to Pot: The High and Low of It* (2021), Executive Producer, Director
- *RuPaul's Drag Race: Bring Back My Ghouls* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Freedia Got a Gun* (2020), Producer
- *Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker* (2020), Producer
- *30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing* (2019), Director
- *Liberty: Mother of Exiles* (2019), Director, Producer
- *Can You Keep a Secret?* (2019), Thanks
- *Stonewall Outloud* (2019), Producer, Director
- *Werq the World* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts* (2019), Executive Producer
- *RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Follow Me* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *When the Beat Drops* (2018), Producer
- *Menendez: Blood Brothers* (2017), Director, Executive Producer
- *Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Every Brilliant Thing* (2016), Director
- *Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures* (2016), Director
- *Out of Iraq: A Love Story* (2016), Producer
- *All My Gay Friends Are Getting Married* (2016), series, Executive Producer
- *Dressed as a Girl* (2014), Executive Producer
- *I Am Britney Jean* (2013), Director
- *In Vogue: The Editor's Eye* (2012), Director
- *The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell* (2011), Director
- *Becoming Chaz* (2011), Director
- *Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking* (2010), Producer, Director
- *When I Knew* (2009), Director
- *Reverend Death* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal* (2008), Director
- *Miss Navajo* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Tammy Faye Death Defying* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Inside Deep Throat* (2005), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Linklater: St. Richard of Austin* (2004), Executive Producer
- *The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality* (2004), Director, Executive Producer
- *Vivid Valley* (2004), series, Executive Producer
- *Party Monster* (2003), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *The Truth About Gay Sex* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Monica in Black and White* (2002), Director
- *Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines* (2001), Director, Producer
- *The Secret Rulers of the World* (2001), series, Producer
- *Lesbians Go Mad In Lesbos* (2001), Executive Producer
- *101 Rent Boys* (2000), Director, Producer
- *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2000), Director, Producer
- *Pornography: The Secret History Of Civilization* (1999), series, Executive Producer
- *Party Monster: The Shockumentary* (1998), Director
- *Shantay* (1997), Director
- *Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV Positive Thinking* (1997), Director
- *The Real Ellen Story* (1997), Director
- *Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder* (1994), Producer, Director
- *RuPaul's Christmas Ball* (1993), Director, Producer
- *Videos, Vigilantes and Voyeurism* (1993), Director, Producer

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/randy-barbato