Bill Rauch

Bill Rauch (born 1962) became the fifth artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in June 2007. He is responsible for selecting eleven plays each season as well as their directors, design teams and cast. Usually, he directs two of the plays himself.

Rauch graduated from Harvard College, United States, in 1984 where he was a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding graduating artist. Rauch has directed plays at South Coast Repertory, the Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many others. He co-founded the community-based, touring Cornerstone Theater Company which now resides in Los Angeles. He was Cornerstone's artistic director from 1986 to 2006, during which time he directed over forty plays. He has taught at University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles and the University of California, Irvine as a Professor of Directing and Community Based Theater.

Rauch is the recipient of the 2009 Margo Jones Award, founded by Inherit the Wind authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and presented annually by Ohio State University. The award honors “that citizen-of-the theatre who has demonstrated a significant impact, understanding, and affirmation of the craft of playwriting, with a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.” In 2010, he received the Theatre Communications Group Visionary Leadership Award. Other honors include a United States Artists Prudential Fellowship, Emmy and Ovation nominations, and Garland, Connecticut Critics Circle, Drama-Logu, Garland, Helen Hayes and “Leadership for a Changing World” award. Rauch was the 2012 recipient of the $5000 Zelda Fichandler Award given by the State Directors and Choreographers Foundation that recognizes past work, future promise, and commends community commitment

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