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Maurice Pate (Rush) Rehm | |
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Born | 1949 (age 75–76) United States |
Occupation(s) | Professor, actor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Drama,classics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Rush Rehm is professor of drama and classics at Stanford University in California,in the United States. [1] He also works professionally as an actor and director. He has published many works on classical theatre. Rehm is the artistic director of Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT),a professional theater company that presents a dramatic festival based on a major playwright each summer. SRT's 2016 summer festival,Theater Takes a Stand,celebrates the struggle for workers' rights. In 2014,he was awarded Stanford's Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education.
Rehm received his BA in creative writing and classics from Princeton University,where he graduated summa cum laude in 1973. In 1975 he received his MA in classical studies from Melbourne University as a Fulbright fellow and a Sachs scholarship. He completed his PhD in drama (directing and criticism) and humanities from Stanford University in 1985.
From 1985 to 1990,Rehm was an assistant professor of classics and theater studies at Emory University,where he taught acting and directing in addition to Greek and classical drama. He moved to Stanford in 1990,promoted to professor of drama and classics since 2003,and retired in 2024.
Founder and Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theate (SRT),he has acted in,directed,and produced dozen of plays,including SRT's Clytemnestra:Tangled Justice (his adaption of Aeschylus' Oresteia),Words (and Images) to End All Wars (his compilation of artistic responses to World War I),and Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds and Moby Dick - Rehearsed,which received the Theater Bay Area 2014 award for Outstanding Direction,Ensemble,and Production. In October 2025,he will direct a staged reading of Judgements:18th Century Slave Trials in Cape Town.