BOARD
SPOTLIGHT
“It has been a privilege to sit on Signature’s Board of Trustees for
the past 10 years. I am very pleased and very proud to have been
a part of the growth of the company and the construction of
Signature’s remarkable home.
I have so many memories – going to meetings at the Lower Manhattan Development Council, signing the
contract with the developer, attending a fundraising event at Edward Norton’s home where the Frank Gehry
Signature Trustee Michael Rauch
models were on display, fighting for the fly tower in The Diamond and The Griffin, and many more. It was a
long road, and feels incredibly satisfying to see what the company, and the building, has become. What is
even more exciting is that there are still many great things ahead.”
Michael H. Rauch joined Signature Theatre’s Board of Trustees in 2005 after
being introduced to the company a few years earlier when his son Matthew,
an actor, appeared in Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days. He served as President
of the Board until 2014, and now serves on the Executive Committee and the
Board Development Task Force. He also served on the Project Management
Michael’s Favorite Signature Memories
Team for Signature’s new home, working closely with Jim Houghton, Erika Mallin,
and the Signature team to oversee construction of The Pershing Square
Signature Center. Mr. Rauch joined Fried Frank in 1968 and became a partner in
1972. He has been of counsel since 2004. Mr. Rauch has served as Fried Frank’s
co-managing partner and as co-chair of the New York litigation department.
1. I knew nothing about
2. Horton Foote’s
3. Being a part of the
4. Residency Five tells
Signature when I came
The Orphans’ Home
building process from
writers, ‘Whatever you’re
to see my son Matthew
Cycle was a huge, epic
almost the beginning,
doing, we’re going to produce
in Lanford Wilson’s
production. Twenty-two
it was very surreal to
three of your plays in the next
Book of Days. It was a
actors, nine hours of
come to the Center
five years.’ I’m not an artist,
wonderful production,
theatre over three
opening night. I spent
but that must be such a
and a great introduction
evenings. I believe it
several years coming
liberating feeling. I’m very
to Signature. It was very
was the biggest show
to meetings here with
proud of that. The Residency
special to see Matthew
we had done up until
the construction people,
Five productions have been
again in a Signature
that point at the
so I actually couldn’t
exceptional. Will Eno’s
production this season
Peter Norton Space.
believe it when it was
Title and Deed is among
in Sam Shepard’s
I loved it.
complete and people
my favorites. I really love
A Particle of Dread
were here to see a
Will’s writing.
(Oedipus