Randy Reinholz

Randy Reinholz
Randy Reinholz at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, July 29, 2017
Born	(1961-12-11) December 11, 1961 St Louis, Missouri
Nationality	Choctaw, United States
Occupation(s)	professor, director, playwright

Randy Reinholz (born December 11, 1961) is a Choctaw Native American director, playwright, and professor. He is the co-creator of Native Voices, a Los Angeles-based theater company that produces new work by indigenous playwrights. Reinholz currently serves as the director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University.

Education

Reinholz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from William Jewell College and a Masters of Fine Arts in theatre from Cornell University.

Career

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

Reinholz has directed more than 75 productions across the US, Australia, and Canada. 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.

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