RANDY REINHOLZ
Director
Head of Theatre Performance Area
Acting, Audition Techniques
Office: DA 201
Phone: 619-594-5091
reinholz@mail.sdsu.edu
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) 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 and is the Producing Artistic Director and Co-Creator of Native Voices at the Autry. He has directed over 50 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 Native Voices' critically acclaimed Equity productions of Jump Kiss, The Buz'Gem Blues, Please Do Not Touch the Indians, and Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light and was executive producer of the world premieres of Kino & Teresa, SUPER INDIAN, Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders and Salvage. He produced and directed Native Voices' world premieres and tours of Stone Heart, The Berlin Blues and The Red Road including performances at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Washington, D.C., and the 2008 tour of The Red Road to 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 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 project (NRT), 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 in communications from William Jewell College and an MFA in acting from Cornell University. In March 2009, he received the Citation of Achievement from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, which honors alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen spheres of endeavor and who have exhibited values of a liberal arts education and of William Jewell College. It is the highest honor bestowed upon William Jewell College alumni. He is on the Board of Directors for TYA/USA, the Advisory Committee for the Native Theater Festival at the Public Theater, and a member of The National Theatre Conference. He is a tenured professor at San Diego State University in the Department of Theatre and on the faculty for American Indian Studies.
Other academic appointments and guest lectures include: Cornell University, Duke University, Illinois State University, Smith College, University Massachusetts Amherst and University of Miami Ohio.
He has appeared as an actor at many theaters across the country including the Old Globe Theatre, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Hanger Theatre and The Court Theatre in Los Angeles. On Television he was a series lead on Days of Our Lives, and also had guest appearances on Pensacola, China Beach, Tour of Duty, as well as the feature film Dead Space.
Grants and awards from National Endowment of the Arts, USA Consulate, South Australia, Ford Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Annie E. Casey, Wells Fargo, Irvine Foundation, City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Morgan Stanley MAP GRANT Multi-Arts Production Fund, Kennedy Center Capacity Building Program, Nissan Corporation, Theatre Communications Group, Actors Equity Association and Canadian Council for the Arts have supported his work.
He authored the book chapters Recent Events in Native Theatre for American Indian Almanac, and Native Voices: New Directions in New Play Development for the American Indian Theatre in Performance: A Reader.
