 Rauch (born 1962) graduated from Harvard College in 1984, where he was a recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding graduating artist.Rauch co-founded the community-based, touring Cornerstone Theater Company in 1986 with Alison Carey, where he directed more than 40 productions, most of them collaborations with diverse rural and urban communities across the United States, and served as artistic director from 1986 to 2006.Rauch has directed a number of world premieres, including Naomi Wallace’s Night is a Room at New York’s Signature Theatre; The Body of an American at Portland Center Stage which, along with All the Way, was co-winner of the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History; The Clean House at Yale Repertory Theatre; and Living Out and For Here or To Go?