Erich Rausch is an actor, musician and director. He began his career working as a musician in Harlem, and went on to music direct in the theater to excellent notices from Newsday, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. He is currently working with WriteActRepertory in the development of new musicals. He also concertizes regularly as a pianist and singer for Concerts in Motion with music from Russia, China and the Americas and in various styles and genres.

At Cannes 2016 he was represented by leading roles in Mikhail Saburov’s sci-fi thriller Remember Us, a pilot for the dystopian-comic series Everything’s OK, and the short Dinner and a Movie. Dinner… was shortlisted by Danny Boyle for his Shuffle Festival, and received the Chaplin Award at the Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival.  He has a supporting role in Ricky D’Ambrose’s new feature The Cathedral, currently playing at Lincoln Center.

Erich played the leading role in a live Zoom reading for Belarus Theater’s adaptation of Secondhand Time by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich at the 2020 Voices International Theatre Festival. In 2022 he acted and played percussion at HungaryLive! for János Mohácsi’s adaptation of Pál Závada’s award-winning book A Market Day about Hungary in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.

He recently recorded the English translation for the final episode of PaperPaper.ru’s podcast Russian Resistance.