Bill Rauch

Artistic Director Bill Rauch is the Inaugural Artistic Director of Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC).

His work as a theater director has been seen across the nation, from low-income community centers to Broadway in the Tony Award®-winning production of Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way and its sequel The Great Society, as well as at many of the largest regional theaters in the country. He most recently co-directed Cats: “The Jellicle Ball” here at PAC NYC. His other New York credits include the world premiere of Naomi Wallace’s Night Is a Room at Signature Theatre, and the New York premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House at Lincoln Center Theater.

From 2007 to 2019, Bill was artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), the country’s oldest and largest rotating repertory theater, where he directed seven world premieres and 20 other plays including several by Shakespeare as well as innovative productions of classic musicals including a queer re-envisioning of Oklahoma! Bill is also co-founder of Cornerstone Theater Company where he served as artistic director from 1986 to 2006, directing more than 40 productions, most of them collaborations with diverse rural and urban communities nationwide.

Photo by Matt Murphy.