Rachel is a native of Warren, Ohio, in the greater Youngstown area. She is entering her first year of the NEOMFA program in playwriting after completing an M.A. in English at Cleveland State in 2010.
Writing credits include:
- Projecting, a one-act incorporating photographs, which was featured in the Cleveland Public Theater’s Little Box reading series in 2009. The play focuses on themes of isolation and the idea of how true images and memory can be used to create false impressions.
- String Theory, which was given a staged reading at Cleveland State as the culmination of the thesis portion of the Master’s program. String Theory focuses on relationships, how they are prioritized in someone’s life, and what happens when that prioritization runs awry.
- Uberfrau, an as-yet unproduced short play about what happens when the good guys and bad guys don’t play their roles as expected. It is, unfortunately, about five minutes too long for ten-minute play festivals.
She is currently working on two full-lengths, one that involves photographs (again) and another that involves a nurse who turns to mummification as medicine.
