Since 2008 Michael Rau has been working internationally in Germany, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. In New York, he has created work at PS 122, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova, The Bushwick Starr, The Brick, 59E59 and Dixon Place, and he has directed regionally in Chicago, Cleveland and Santa Barbara. He has developed new plays at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark and New York Theater Workshop. His production of Four Saints in Three Acts was selected as a noteworthy production of the 2008 Opera America Director/Designer Showcase. His production of The Great God Brown was exhibited as part of the 2011 Prague Quadrennial.  He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Wesleyan University. Michael Rau is a recipient of directing fellowships from the Kennedy Center, the New Play Network, the Likhachev Foundation and a TCG National Conference Grant.