Randy Reinholz

Randy Reinholz (born December 11, 1961)^[1] is a Choctaw^[2][3] Native American director, playwright, and professor.

Randy Reinholz
Randy Reinholz at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, July 29, 2017
Born	(1961-12-11) December 11, 1961 (age 63) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Nationality	Choctaw, United States
Alma mater	William Jewell College (BA) Cornell University (MFA)
Occupation(s)	professor, director, playwright

He is the co-creator of Native Voices, a Los Angeles-based theater company that produces new work by indigenous playwrights.^[3]

Reinholz is the director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University,^[4] located in San Diego, California.

Early life and education

He was born December 11, 1961, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reinholz received a Bachelor of Arts degree from William Jewell College, located in Liberty, Missouri; and a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre from Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York.^[5]

Career

In 1989, Reinholz played Adam Scott on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives.^[1]

Reinholz has directed more than seventy-five productions across the U.S., Australia, and Canada.^[6]

In 1993, he and his wife, Jean Bruce Scott, co-founded Native Voices, a theatre company at the Autry Museum of the American West dedicated to producing new work by indigenous playwrights.

For a decade, he led the acting program at San Diego State University's School of Theatre, Television, and Film, becoming its director in 2007. In 2012, he was appointed Director of Community Engagement and Innovative Programs for the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts at SDSU.^[7]

Reinholz's play Off the Rails, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure from a Nativeź-American perspective, was produced by Native Voices in 2015.^[8] In 2017, it became the first play by a native writer to be presented by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.^[9]