Biography

Tim Rarick was born in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, in l946 and attended school there before doing his undergraduate work in education at Washington State University and the University of Idaho with a major in English and a minor in journalism.

After teaching literature for three years, he enrolled at the University of Oregon and completed a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies in l975 in theatre and English. Simultaneously, he was the theatre director at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, where he taught theatre and speech. After a stint as theatre director at Cheney High School (Washington) in l975-77, Rarick returned to the University of Oregon as a graduate teaching fellow in the theatre department where he completed a year of post master's work in theatre arts.

Over a period of a decade between l978 and l988, Rarick wrote, produced and directed a series of plays for Grubstake Productions, Inc., an Idaho non-profit arts organization. These plays included children's theatre, reader's theatre, one-person plays and full length dramas and musicals. The musical plays were written with composer Tom Cooper (nine in all) and were produced throughout the Inland Northwest at community, civic and university theatres. During this time, Cooper and Rarick won a number of grants from arts commissions and private corporations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. One production, Riversong, an opera based on the Lewis & Clark expedition has been produced in Seattle and at the Idaho Reparatory Theatre. He is currently seeking a production of a new opera based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter."

Rarick became Theatre Director at North Idaho College in l988 and since then has directed over 40 productions on the NIC stage. He has directed at other area universities, for the Spokane Opera Association, and taught playwrighting at the University of Idaho Playwrights Conference and has been an adjunct faculty member in theatre at Lewis-Clark State College. He recently completed a sabbatical leave where he toured American regional theatres and finished a biography entitled "Moira" based on the Irish-Australian family of his mother. Tim lives in Coeur d'Alene with his wife Janie.