Plays written by Randy Reinholz
A NEW STORY FROM RABBIT AND FROG
UNDER A BIG SKY
OFF THE RAILS
Synopses:
Off the Rails (9M, 5W) – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show is in town holding auditions, and the regulars at the Stewed Prunes Saloon are hoping for a shot at stardom. But plans change when Momaday, a Pawnee teenager, is sentenced to hang for his forbidden love affair with an Irish-American girl. Captain Angelo, the presiding officer, won’t budge . . . until he lays eyes on Momaday’s sister, Isabel. This irreverent, subversive adaptation of Measure for Measure—described as “Blazing Saddlesmeets Shakespeare” and OSF’s first play by a Native American writer—uses healthy doses of humor and music to illuminate the painful legacy of Indian boarding schools in the American West.
Bio:
Randy Reinholz, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is Founding Artistic Director of Native Voices at the Autry, the nation’s premier Equity theater company dedicated exclusively to developing and producing new plays by Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and First Nations, playwrights.
Reinholz is an accomplished producer, director, playwright, actor, 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 several new scripts and media projects in development. He has produced more than 35 new scripts and directed over 75 plays in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Great Britain, and Canada. Native Voices has presented 300 workshops and presentations of Native plays, with artists from more than 100 distinct tribal nations. Native Voices maintains long standing relationships with La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Perseverance Theatre, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Montana Rep, The Alaska Native Heritage Center, New York’s Public Theater, and the National New Play Network.
Reinholz has received Playwrights’ Arena’s Lee Melville Award, the Association of Theatre in Higher Education’s Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Professional Theatre, The Los Angeles Drama Circle’s Gordon Davidson Award, a McKnight Fellowship, a Map Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant, and numerous NEA grants. He is President of the National Theater Conference, a trustee of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and on the National Advisory Board for the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference. He served on the Los Angeles County, Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative Advisory Committee, and ATHE’s National Leadership Institute. Reinholz is a tenured Professor at San Diego State University, where he also served as Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film. Reinholz served as a Council Member (Board of Directors), for The Dramatist Guild of American, 2019-2020.
He has several new scripts and media projects in development.
Website: www.randyreinholz.com