Brian Rhinehart is an actor, director, Fulbright scholar, and full time lecturer of acting, directing, devising, and theatre history at The Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. An expert in devised theatre and collaborative playmaking, Rhinehart has worked as a freelance theatre director for the last twenty-two years. His original and devised works have been seen in the U.S., Scotland, Italy, Poland, and Turkey. He was a member of the 2006 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, is a critically acclaimed actor who has performed in over fifty productions in New York, Germany, and Florida, and has given various theatre workshops and seminars on comedy and devising in the U.S., Germany, Portugal, China, Japan, and Thailand.