RANDY REINHOLZ
Interim Director
Head of Theatre Performance Area
Acting, Audition Techniques
Office: DA 215
Phone: 594-0229
reinholz@mail.sdsu.edu
Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) co-creator and artistic director of Native Voices, has twenty years of experience in theatre, film, and television in the United States and Canada as an actor, director, producer, and script developer. He was the executive producer and director of the critically acclaimed Urban Tattoo at the Autry and at venues in Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary, Canada, opening in 2005 in Brisbane Australia. He is also the producer of The Baby Blues and director of the critically acclaimed Equity productions of Kino and Teresa,Please Do Not Touch the Indians, Jump Kiss and The Buz’Gem Blues. Cosponsor of the 2002 ABC Native American Showcase, he consulted on NBC’s Native American Showcase/Pilot Reading of Blood Brothers in 2003. He directed The Rez Sisters, an award-winning play by First Nations playwright Tomson Highway (Cree), for Theatre Cornell as the centerpiece of Cornell University’s Indians’ Indians: Re-presentation of Native American People in the Arts. Reinholz received his MFA in theatre from Cornell University. He is a tenured Professor and Head of Performance at San Diego State University.
Other directing credits include productions of, Hedda Gable, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Now Look What You Made Me Do, Madame Mao, The Imaginary Invalid, Ciao Bella, Under Milk Wood, Waiting for Godot, Speed the Plow, How I Learned to Drive, The Waiting Room, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and Road to Los Angeles. During the past ten years Reinholz has been instrumental in the development of new works for the stage and has directed staged readings and workshops of Urban Tattoo, Madame Mao, Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Ciao Bella, As the Crow Flies, City of Shadows, Now Look What You Made Me Do, The Independence of Eddie Rose, Pranks, No Totem for My Story, Where Two Rivers Meet, Jump Kiss, The Buz’Gem Blues, and Please Do Not Touch the Indians.
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 the National Endowment of the Arts, the City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the McKnight National Residency Program, Illinois Arts Council, and Wells Fargo 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. He has served on a number of panels, including the Cultural Affairs Department for the City of Los Angeles and the National Endowment for the Arts.
