 Other honors include the inaugural “Guiding Star” Award (2017), two Independent Reviewers of New England Awards (2017, 2014), a Falstaff Award (2013), the 2012 Zelda Fichandler Award, TCG’s Visionary Leadership Award (2010), Connecticut Critics Circle, L.A. Weekly, and Helen Hayes Awards.He is also the only artist to have won the inaugural “Leadership for a Changing World” award (2001).Rauch is also the recipient of the 2009 Margo Jones Award, founded by "Inherit the Wind" authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and presented annually by Ohio State University.