Bound by no rules, Rachel devises collaborative, innovative performances and help others develop new works as a devisor, director, actor, educator, playwright and movement consultant.

Rachel's work ping-pongs between the sacred and the profane, creating spaces where audiences can acknowledge their own wounding and healing through self-reflection, empowerment and laughter.

She writes with image, movement, music and text, sometimes alone, but often collaboratively. Her creations include physical, experimental and interactive performances about tigers, zombies, scars and the permeability of memory, as well as site-specific performances featured in Art All Night DC and Supernova Performance Art Festival. Her devised adaptation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women was a part of Washington DC’s second Women’s Voices Festival. 

Rachel was a Producing Playwright with cohort 2 of Washington DC's premiere playwrights' collective, The Welders. She  devised and produced LadyM, a clown show about violence, blood and power, inspired by the witches and powerful women of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. She received two DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities project grants, one to interview DC women and health professionals about their relationship to menstruation, and the other to create a series of short films, starring a puppet made of period products, interrogating how young people learn about what it means to be a menstruator.

She has performed and/or devised with banished? productions (Tyger, , she took me back so tenderly,), George & Co (Animal Animal Mammal Mine), Emma Jaster (To Know a Veil), Babel Theatre (Balloon Plays), Megan Dominy (Lolita Reinterpereted), Brave Spirits (Richard III, The Trojan Women Project), Synetic Teen Company (The Jungle Book) and two iterations of Natsu Onoda Power’s gender-bending The T Party at Forum Theatre.

Rachel teaches devising, movement, clown, ensemble work and playwriting. She has been a devisor/director with National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Montgomery College, Arena Stage’s Voices of Now, Ford’s National Oratory Fellows, Encore Stage and Studio, and Educational Theatre Company (ETC). Her teaching focuses on process-based creation and empowers students to continue their journeys as actors, directors and creators, long after they’ve left the classroom.

From 2006-2011, Rachel was the Co-Artistic Director of avant garde performance group, Helsinki Syndrome, performing in On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival, the Henry Art Gallery, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Annex Theatre (Seattle), Hand2Mouth’s Risk/Reward Series (Portland), Camden People’s Theatre SPRINT Festival (London) and had two residencies at Richard Forman’s Ontological-Hysteric Incubator (NYC). 

Rachel earned her MFA in Lecoq Based Actor Created Theatre from Naropa University at the London International School for the Arts (LISPA). Rachel is a eight-time DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellow and winner of the Larry Neal Award for Dramatic Writing. Most recently, Rachel led the theatre program at Limestone University, focusing on the relationship between the classics and new work, with a focus on personal growth and development.

She currently on the faculty of the department of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill and works with the Program for Public Discourse.