Jack Reuler founded the Mixed Blood Theatre at the age of 22 and served as its Artistic Director through 2022. Mixed Blood disrupts injustice, models equity, and creates community, using theatre as a vehicle for artistry, entertainment, education, and effecting social change. To that end, he has produced and directed 151 world premieres and scores of comedies, musicals, extravaganzas, and chamber theatre pieces in regional theaters, commercial theater, university theaters, summer stock theaters, and theaters for young audiences from Juneau to Jacksonville and La Jolla to Off Broadway. 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.” Jack has received the Ordway’s Sally Award for Vision, Actors’ Equity Association’s Spirit Award, and the St. Paul Foundation named him a Facing Race Ambassador. He was presented with the Ivey Award for Lifetime Achievement and was named a Local Legend by the United Negro College Fund. At APAP, he was presented with the 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.” He has also received Actors’ Equity Association’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, and Minneapolis Community College’s Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. Twin Cities Business named Jack a 2O21 person to watch as a change agent. He is a founding member and former president of the National New Play Network.