Rauch has directed a number of world premieres, including Naomi Wallace's Night is a Room at New York's Signature Theatre; The Body of an American at Portland Center Stage which, along with All the Way, was co-winner of the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History; The Clean House at Yale Repertory Theatre; and Living Out and For Here or To Go? at the Mark Taper Forum. He also directed the New York premiere of The Clean House at Lincoln Center Theater. Work elsewhere includes productions at South Coast Repertory, Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater and En Garde Arts.