Danielle Thomsen

Special Projects Pixie

(Founder & Special Projects)

Danielle is our founder, former executive director, and current special projects pixie. This means she schemes up new, surprising, and enchanting pop up experiences. In other words, Danielle is still keeping things Random and Silly in our community! Keep your eyes peeled for her next creation.

Growing up in Atlanta, Danielle was inspired by shows at the Center for Puppetry Arts. She built magical houses for her My Little Ponies in the backyard, hunted for mushrooms and wildflowers with her mom, and started a new club for the neighbor kids every week. Her peak life experience (thus far) was flying as Wendy in Peter Pan. Fundamentally, RAS is an attempt to recreate the magic her big brother Kenny created with family movie making competitions and annual Halloween productions featuring giant papier mache creatures and sets complete with sound, lighting and special effects.

Danielle spent more than 15 years in environmental education and conservation. She lives with her artist husband Matthew, theatrical kids Fletcher and Willa, and Dudley the Clown Dog. If Danielle had a magical power, it would be not needing sleep, because she’d like to get about 1,000 more things done every day.

“Watching the seed of an idea grow into reality because of amazing artists is total magic for me. I love being part of a community of creators and the good energy and connections that arise when building something together."