Randy Reinholz - 2019 Winner of the Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Award in Professional Theatre

Описание: Randy Reinholz was announced the winner of the Ellen Stewart Career Achievement Award in Professional Theatre at the 2019 Conference.

Randy Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is founder and Producing Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation’s premier Equity theater company dedicated exclusively to the development and production of new plays by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations, playwrights. In 2019-20 NVA celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary of developing, producing, and touring critically acclaimed theater to advance the Native narrative for social change. Reinholz has worked diligently to put the Native voice at the center of telling the stories of Native people on the American stage. He is an accomplished producer, director, actor, playwright and activist. "Off The Rails," his bawdy and irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Measure for Measure" had its world premiere and a sold out run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with Bill Rauch directing in 2017. His current play, Under A Big Sky was developed in 2019 at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. Reinholz has produced more than 30 scripts and directed over 60 plays in the United States, Australia, Mexico, England, and Canada. He has received the Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award, a MAP Grant, a McKnight Fellowship, the LA Drama Critics Circle Gordon Davidson Award and numerous grants from the NEA, Ford Foundation, Shubert Foundation, City of LA Cultural Affairs, Disney, Sony, and LA County Arts Commission. Reinholz is Vice President of the National Theater Conference, a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, on the National Advisory Board for the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and the La Jolla Playhouse Leadership Council. He served on the Los Angeles County, Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative Advisory Committee, and ATHE’s Leadership Institute, Leadership Transition Team where he continues to serve as a faculty mentor. He is a founding member of the Fund for an Equitable Theatre Ecology (FETE) a Think Tank facilitated by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Institute (a partnership of TCG and artEquity), the National Cultural Navigation Theater Project, and is a Core Partner of ArtChangeUS: Arts in a Changing America a five-year initiative based out of the California Institute of the Arts. Reinholz is a tenured Professor at San Diego State University, where he served as Head of Acting from 1997-2007, Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film from 2007-2012, and Director of Community Engagement and Innovation for the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts from 2012-2015. He holds an MFA, Cornell University; BA, William Jewell College.

Beyond SDSU, he has held academic positions with Illinois State University, Duke University, and Santa Monica College. During that time he also lectured at University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Miami, Ohio; Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia; University of La Verne; University of Oregon; Northwestern University; Brown University; UC Riverside; UC San Diego; UC Irvine; Harlaxton College, Gramthan, UK; University of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK; City University of New York; The Smithsonian; Cornell University; Smith College; United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT); and The Mark Taper Forum.

His work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Perseverance Theatre, Vision Maker Media, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Montana Rep, The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Riverside Theatres, London, The Gilcrease Museum, Queensland State Library, Brisbane, The Glenbow Museum, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theatre and New York’s Public Theater. He has also appeared as an actor on many stages across the country as well as NBC, ABC, and CBS Television.