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Rachel is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, and educator residing in Brooklyn. She is currently a company member of Colt Coeur Theater, where she was a 2022-2023 resident playwright. Her plays include It's Only a High School Reunion (Live and In Color 24 Hour Festival), Red Red Wine (Fire This Time Festival), Token (O'Neill Center Semifinalist), and Reformer (Colt Coeur Commission and O'Neill Center Semifinalist).

 

Additionally, her playwrighting portfolio has landed her as a finalist for the WP Theater Lab and a semifinalist for the June Bingham Commission with Live and In Color. 

 

She's written several original pilots, of which she was named a CBS Writer's Mentoring Program finalist (2019), a Mentorship Matters semifinalist (2021), and a two-time Disney Writing Program finalist (2022 and 2023). She is a mentee in the #startwith8 program for women of Color breaking into television writing. She wrote, directed, and starred in a short film called IDOL CHASER, which premiered in Fall 2024 at Katra Film Series and took home the Audience Choice Award.

 

Her satirical writing is featured on McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She received a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. 

 

Her plays can be viewed and downloaded on the New Play Exchange. 

To read her latest thoughts and musings, please explore her substack IT'S A COOKBOOK (named after THE big reveal in THAT episode of the Twilight Zone)

 

 
 
 
 
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