 He has taught at University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles and the University of California, Irvine as a Professor of Directing and Community Based Theater.Rauch became the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's fifth artistic director in 2007, after five seasons at the Festival as a guest director.As visiting director at OSF, Rauch directed "Handler" (2002), "Hedda Gabler" (2003), "The Comedy of Errors" (2004), "By the Waters of Babylon" (2005) & "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (2006).