Jack Reuler founded the Mixed Blood Theatre Company at the age of 22, promoting successful pluralism using theatre as a vehicle for artistry, entertainment, education, and effecting social change. Mixed Blood has produced over 145 world premieres and scores of regional premieres, including epic spectacle extravaganzas, intimate chamber theatre, musicals, adaptations of novels and films, and a string of sports plays.
In 2010 Theatre Communications group presented Jack with its Peter Zeisler Award, for exemplifying pioneering practices in theatre, dedication to the freedom of expression, and for being unafraid to take risks in the advancement of the art form. In 2009 Jack received the Ordway’s Sally Award for Vision, Actors’ Equity’s Spirit Award, and the St. Paul Foundation named him a...
Jack Reuler founded the Mixed Blood Theatre Company at the age of 22, promoting successful pluralism using theatre as a vehicle for artistry, entertainment, education, and effecting social change. Mixed Blood has produced over 145 world premieres and scores of regional premieres, including epic spectacle extravaganzas, intimate chamber theatre, musicals, adaptations of novels and films, and a string of sports plays.
In 2010 Theatre Communications group presented Jack with its Peter Zeisler Award, for exemplifying pioneering practices in theatre, dedication to the freedom of expression, and for being unafraid to take risks in the advancement of the art form. In 2009 Jack received the Ordway’s Sally Award for Vision, Actors’ Equity’s Spirit Award, and the St. Paul Foundation named him a Facing Race Ambassador. He was presented with the 2006 Ivey Award for Lifetime Achievement and was named a 2006 Local Legend by the United Negro College Fund. He was presented with the 2007 Met Life Access Award on behalf of Mixed Blood for the theatre’s disability initiatives.
Jack was named to Esquire magazine’s first “Register of People Under Forty Who Are Changing America.” Mixed Blood and Jack have won three Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle Awards, the Twin Cities’ Mayors’ Public Arts Award, Actors’ Equity’s first Rosetta LeNoire Award for “celebrating the universality of the human experience on the American stage,” Macalester College’s Distinguished Citizen Award, The City’s Minneapolis Award, Minneapolis Community College’s Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award, the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission’s Martin Luther King Award, the Minnesota Council on Black Minnesotans’ Dream Keeper Award, the Minneapolis Foundation’s Diversity Award, the Minnesota Council of Non-Profits Anti-Racism Mission Award and the United Negro College Fund’s Local Legend.
Jack Reuler is a board member and past Co-President of the National New Play Network.