Randy Reinholz, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Founding Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation’s premier Equity theatre company dedicated exclusively to developing and producing new plays by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations playwrights. Reinholz is a producer, actor, director, playwright, professor, and activist. His play Off The Rails, directed by Bill Rauch, had its world premiere and a sold-out run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has produced 35+ new scripts and directed 75+ plays in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain, and Canada. During his tenure, Native Voices presented 300+ workshops and readings of Native plays with artists from more than 100 distinct tribal nations, with work appearing at OSF, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, The Public Theater, Perseverance Theatre, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Montana Rep, The Alaska Native Heritage Center, Arizona Repertory Theatre, numerous universities, and tribal communities. Awards include Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award, the Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre, the LA Drama Circle’s Gordon Davidson Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Map Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant, and NEA grants. He is the immediate past President of the National Theater Conference, a trustee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and served as a Council Member for The Dramatist Guild of America. He is a tenured Professor at San Diego State University, where he also served as Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film.