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Bill Rauch

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Biography

 

BILL RAUCH (Founding Artistic Director) co-founded Cornerstone in 1986 and has directed over 40 of the company's productions, including the majority of the company's community collaborations nationwide. He has also directed at regional theaters across the country including Yale Repertory, Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf Theatre and Great Lakes Theater Festival. For his directorial efforts, Bill has received L.A. Weekly, Drama-Logue, Garland, and Helen Hayes Awards, Connecticut Critics Circle Award (for Best Direction), and has been twice nominated for the Ovation Award for Best Director. From 1992 to 1998, he served on the Board of Directors of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for non-profit theater (two years as a member of the Executive Committee). He graduated from Harvard College in 1984 where he received the Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding graduating artist. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The Durfee Foundation and the Playwrights Center and Keynote Speaker for Theatre Puget Sound's inaugural conference and has testified before Congress in support of the NEA. Bill is the only artist to have received the inaugural Leadership for a Changing World Award. He is an Associate Artist at Yale Repertory Theater and South Coast Repertory and a Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at University of California, Irvine. Most recently, Bill has been appointed the incoming artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

 

 

Roles and Productions

 

Director Our Town
Director The Snow Queen
Director That Marfa Fever 
Director
The Pretty Much True Story of Dinwiddie County
Director The Dog Beneath the Skin: An Epidemic Epic 
Director Tartoof (Or, an Imposter in Norcatur -- And at Christmas!
Director A Midsummer Night's Dream 
Director The House on Walker River
Director The Good Person of Long Creek
Director Romeo And Juliet
Director Three Sisters From West Virginia 
Director Pier Gynt 
Director The Video Store Owner's Significant Other
Director  The Winter's Tale: An Interstate Adventure 
Director  The Toy Truck
Director  Rushing Waters
Director A Community Carol
Director  Twelfth Night, Or As You Were
Director  LA Building 
Director & Co-Writer Everyman in the Mall 
Director  A California Seagull 
Dramaturg Sid Arthur
Director  The Central Ave Chalk Circle 
Director  The Birthday of the Century 
Director MalliƩre
Director  Too Noble Brothers 
Artistic Director Candude, or the Optimistic Civil Servant 
Artistic Director   Los Vecinos: A Play for Neighbors 
Artistic Director   Los Biombos or The Screens  
Director  Medea MacBeth Cinderella 
Director  Beverly Hills - A.K.A: A Beverly Hills Musical Morality Tale
Director Beverly Hills Bridge Show: Broken Hearts
Director  The Good Person of New Haven 
Director  For Here or To Go 
Director  Peter Pan
Director  Zones or Where Does Your Soul Live and Is There Sufficient Parking
Dramaturg   Crossings: Journeys of Catholic Immigrants  
Director
I Can't Pay the Rent
Director The Marmarth Hamlet
Director A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters
Director For Here or to Go?
Director The Birthday of the Century
Director Waking Up in Lost Hills: A Central California Rip Van Winkle
Director The Falls
Director As You Like It: A California Concoction 
   
   
   
   

 

Work with Cornerstone

Work Outside Cornerstone

 

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