Rachel is a 3x recipient of the NYC DCLA Art Fund award and a NYFA City Artist Corps award for the short films So Goes the Nation, Raising ASD and the play Spectrum of Truth. Her feature Urban Farmers received a NYC DCLA Premier grant and screened at The New School Climate Action Week. She wrote and directed the short documentary film Passing the Torch: Women Who Lead as a collaboration with Staten Island Museum’s suffragette exhibit. Her feature screenplay The Aquanauts received the Alfred P. Sloan Writers Fellowship. She earned an MA in Educational Theater from NYU, a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting from UCLA TFT, and a Professional Certificate in Drama from American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
aRTISTIC statement
Rachel is committed to themes of loyalty to a cause at great sacrifice. Her work confronts the duality of the professional and personal experiences of women. She explores the intimate connection women have to landscapes as these backdrops convey the internal strength and will to survive under the harshest conditions whether they be personal or environmental. No matter her role on a project she infuses a relentless attention to detail, extensive research and a collaborative spirit.