 In 2018 Rauch received the Ivy Bethune Award from Actors’ Equity Association for diversity and inclusion in hiring, casting and producing.Other honors include the inaugural “Guiding Star” Award (2017), two Independent Reviewers of New England Awards (2017, 2014), a Falstaff Award (2013), the 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award, TCG’s Visionary Leadership Award (2010), Connecticut Critics Circle, L.A. Weekly, and Helen Hayes Awards.He is also the only artist to have won the inaugural “Leadership for a Changing World” award (2001).