Bill Rauch
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Bill Rauch will succeed Libby Appel as the fifth artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As artistic director he will be responsible for selecting eleven plays and their directors, design teams and casts each season.
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[edit] Biography
Rauch graduated from Harvard College in 1984 where he was a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding graduating artist. 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 the Claire Trevor Professor of Drama. Rauch has directed plays at South Coast Repertory, the Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many others. He co-founded the community-based Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, where he was artistic director for twenty years, during which time he directed over forty plays.
[edit] Work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Before becoming artistic director, Rauch directed Handler (2002), Hedda Gabler(2003), Comedy of Errors (2004), By the Waters of Babylon (2005) and Two Gentlemen of Verona (2006) at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Known as a successful risk-taker, he is moved by the eclecticism of the programming that combines Shakespeare, other classics, contemporary work, and plays commissioned for the company. He plans to encourage continued artistic growth and produce at least one new play on average per season. He is also interested in launching a major cycle of new plays that explore United States history. An occasional epic text from outside the Western canon such as a Sanskrit, African or Japanese classic may join the theatrical offerings.
[edit] References
Information from the archives of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Used with permission of Amy Richard, Media Relations, OSF: media@osfashland.org
