Randy Reinholz

Randy Reinholz, is the co-creator and producing artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry. He has directed over fifty plays in the US, Australia and Canada including The Rez Sisters, The Waiting Room, Proof, How I Learned to Drive, Hedda Gabler, Speed the Plow, The Cherry Orchard, Desire Under the Elms, The Glass Menagerie and numerous productions of Shakespeare's plays. He was the director and executive producer of Urban Tattoo and the critically acclaimed Equity productions of Jump Kiss, The Buz'Gem Blues, Please Do Not Touch the Indians, and Carbon Black, and the executive producer of the world premieres of Kino & Teresa, SUPER INDIAN, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders, The Fry Bread Queen, Salvage (including a week long run of Salvage at Riverside Studios in London in 2009), and Tales of an Urban Indian in association with The Public Theatre in New York. He also produced and directed the world premieres and tours of Stone Heart, The Berlin Blues, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light (including performances at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, The La Jolla Playhouse, and The Public Theater), and The Red Road (including performances at NMAI in New York and Washington D.C., the 16th World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young People in Adelaide, Australia, and the Originals Festival in Brisbane, Australia). He has co-sponsored showcases and diversity workshops for Disney/ABC and NBC and is an annual guest artist for the FOX American Indian Summer Institute. He is a co-founder and producer for Native Radio Theater, a collaboration between Native Voices and Native American Public Telecommunications funded by the Ford Foundation and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). He holds a BA (Communications) from William Jewell College and an MFA in Acting from Cornell University. In 2009 he received the Citation of Achievement from William Jewell College, the highest honor they bestow, for alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen spheres of endeavor. He is on the Advisory Committee for the Native Theater Festival at The Public Theatre, and a member of The National Theatre Conference. He is a tenured professor at San Diego State University in the Department of Theater and on faculty for American Indian Studies. In 2007, after ten years as Head of Acting he was named the Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University.