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Rachael directs This Sinking Island
After a year of virtual theater, Rachael directs an in-person children’s play about Climate change. Devised by The Anthropologists, written by Melissa Moschitto, with music by Mariah Freda, and presented by Rising Sun, this play explores the immediate and longterm affects of climate change in a powerful way that children (and adults) can engage with.
August 2021
Rachael acts in an Original Children’s Theatre Festival
Rachael plays the Possum in Holly Gepp-Galván’s Playing Possum as a part of Rising Sun Performance Company’s Theatre for Young Audience Parks Tour, which tours the New York City Parks, and culminates in a theatre festival on Governor’s Island.
July 2021
Rachael designs a virtual production of The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
Rachael works with Untitled Theatre Company 61 to design and technically manage the virtual production by Edward Einhorn, which was streamed live through OBS and YouTube as a part of a fundraiser for Untitled Theatre Company 61.
June 2021
Rachael Directs The Tall Blonde With the Toy Giraffe
As a part of Metropolitan Playhouse’s East Village Stories Unmasked virtual play festival, Rachael directed a cast of three in an original play reminiscing about The East Village in the 1980s.
June 2021
Rachael directs 10 year olds in two original musicals
Rachael worked with Sandbox Theater to direct two groups of ten-year-olds in outdoor theater performances, and explore creating theater.
June 2021
Rachael directs hybrid in-person/ live-steaming production of City of Dark
Rachael directs City of Dark by Michael Hagins as part of Rising Sun’s lab at the 14th Street Y. This production was performed in person, and streamed live to a virtual audience via YouTube.
May 2021
Rachael creates graphics for Tell The Story: Celebrating Sondheim and Weidman’s Assassins at Classic Stage Company
As the Digital Marketing Associate for Classic Stage Company, Rachael created the graphics for the virtual performance celebrating the highly anticipated CSC production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, along with the promotional materials. She also set up the video streaming, which premiered to over 14,000 people.
April 2021
Rachael talks about the classics at Metropolitan Playhouse
Rachael sat with theater classic experts Melissa Maxwell, Linda Kuriloff, Diego Carvajal and Alex Roe, to discuss how classic works can live in the present theater landscape.
April 2021
Rachael directs Ardsley High School seniors in a Virtual Senior Revue
Rachael directs 40 students in developing and performing a virtual Senior Revue entitled, Find a Theme. The performance was created virtually and in person following outdoor Covid safety rules to create a show with 6 original skits and performances.
April 2021
Rachael technical directs The Rites of Spring virtual Spring festival
Rachael coordinates a management team of 4 to produce a festival of short original plays virtually.
March 2021
Rachael directs Winter’s Night
Rachael directs Winter’s Night by Neith Boyce at The Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse, a short play from the turn of the century where a relationship meets its end on a cold unforgiving night.
March 2021
Rachael directs The Outside
Rachael directs The Outside by Susan Glaspell at The Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse, a short play about the edge of Cape Cod, where life and death battle on the cold rocky shores of 1900s Provincetown.
February 2021
Rachael acts in an audio play
Rachael dives into voice acting as Kate in Letters I’ll Never Send by Nicole Barnard. Listen to the podcast here.
January 2021
Rachael Music Directs and Sound Designs Scrooge
Rachael brushes up on her music theory as the musical director for Scrooge: a virtual Christmas Carol. In addition to sound design, technical direction and music direciton, Rachael arranges classic Christmas carols for a capella choral arrangement.
December 2020
Rachael directs two short plays with Around the Block
Rachael directs The Apartment by Eleanor Herman and Maintain Neutrality by Carlos Jerome as a part of the Word Around the Block short virtual play festival.
December 2020
Rachael acts in Pace playwright final
Rachael acts in a series of one-acts as a guest artist for Judd Lear Silverman’s playwriting class.
December 2020
Rachael directs Hallow-Stream
Rachael directs and technical directs Hallow-Stream, Rising Sun Performance Company’s virtual play festival where 9 original plays are developed and produced for live streaming.
October 2020
Rachael joins Rising Sun Performance Company Staff
Rachael becomes the New Media and Marketing Manager for Rising Sun Performance Company, and takes on the role of producing new work that expands our viral performance capabilities and digital media presence.
September 2020
Rachael directs A Woman’s Honor
A part of Metropolitan’s Virtual Playhouse, Rachael directs Susan Glaspell’s A Woman’s Honor, a short play that questions the value of woman’s honor at the turn of the century.
September 2020
Rachael Technical Directs F’d Up FairyTales
Rachael is the Technical Director for Rising Sun Performance Company’s first Virtual production: F’d Up Fairytales by Michael Hagins, directed by Chelsey Smith.
September 2020
East Village Trader Joe’s was reviewed!
Check out the review for East Village Trader Joes by Karen D’Onofrio
July 2020
Rachael makes her Virtual Directorial Debut Off-Off Broadway
Rachael directed East Village Trader Joe’s by Jessica Moss at the Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse as a part of the annual East Village Stories Series.
June 2020
Rachael Stage Manages for The Metropolitan Virtual Playhouse
As theaters pivot to online performances, Rachael collaborates with Metropolitan Playhouse Artistic Director to reimagine classic plays virtually using Zoom, OBS and various streaming platforms.
June 2020
Rachael writes and directs in Online Mini Scenes
Rachael writes and directs various short original plays written for Zoom, and experiments with live streaming, as a part of Rising Sun Performance Company’s Online Mini Scenes Group.
May 2020
Directed by Rachael
On a Wing and a Prayer by Judd Lear Silverman
Hope Throws Her Heart Away by Susan Goodell
Written by Rachael
Mr. Butter’s Murder Mystery
Swept Away
Rachael pivots
When theaters shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Rachael combines her experience in digital marketing and directing to develop zoom theater and innovate new ways to collaborate artistically from home.
March 2020
Rachael joins Rising Sun Performance Company
Rachael joins Rising Sun as an ensemble member, where she works with a group of indie artists to cultivate original productions.
March 2020
Rachael moderates a talk back at Classic Stage Company
Rachael moderates a post-show discussion on Women and Dracula with playwright Kate Hamill and gender studies expert Dr. Laura Westengard after Classic Stage Company’s production of Dracula by Kate Hamill
February 2020
Rachael directs A Nightmare Before a Test at Ardsley High School
Rachael works with over 45 students to create an original revue, including over 25 songs, performed to over an audience of 300 over the course of two nights.
January 2020
Rachael directs Graduation by Eugene Grygo at The International Human Rights Festival.
December 2019
Rachael works as an Associate Producer on The Passing Show of 2019 at UnsungMusicalsCo.
November 2019
Rachael directs Blithe Seance by Eugene M. Grygo at The Little Victory Theater.
November 2019
Rachael directs two developmental readings.
In an effort to further devlop these peices, Rachael worked with playwright Eugene M. Grygo and screen writer Jamie M. Faryniak on two developmental workshops: one on Blithe Seance a play by Eugene M. Grygo, and another on “Father, Forgive Me,” a TV show by Eugene M. Grygo and Jamie M. Faryniak.
October 2019
Rachael directs Fable from an Unstable Table by Susan Goodell.
This production was performed with Rising Sun Performance Company’s Laboratorium Artists Residency In Association with Trust for Governors Island.
August 2019
Rachael joins the staff at Classic Stage Company as The Digital Marketing Associate.
July 2019
Rachael stage manages East Side Stories at Metropolitan Playhouse.
This series of short new works by Rachel Carnes, Leonard D. Goodman, Arlene Jaffe and Carlos Jerome was directed by Alberto Bonita at Metropolitan Playhouse.
June 2019
Rachael becomes Visual Assets Manager at Reading International.
As Visual Asset Manager, she develops marketing campaigns for signature programming series such as Musical Mondays and Hitchcocktober, includinganimating the trailer for Hitchcocktober 2019.
april 2019
Rachael directs Sincerely Held Beliefs by Bambi Everson at Emerging Artists Theatre.
March 2019
Rachael directs Ardsley High School’s The Final Episode: The Senior Revue.
This original musical revue includes over fifty high school seniors and thirty songs. The revue was written by students through workshops led by Rachael. The show performs in front of an audience of 250 people.
January 2019
Rachael works on Show Time! The First 100 Years of the American Musical.
Rachael works as the Producer’s Representative on the original debut of this UnsungMusicalCo. production, which performs at The Theatre at St. Theatre at the York Theatre.
September 2018
Rachael directs Blithe Seance and Eugene and Carlo by Eugene M. Grygo at the Medicine Show Theatre.
August 2018
Rachael directs a New York City Workshop of a new play by Audrey Lang called You Have to Promise
To find out more information about You Have To Promise, visit youhavetopromise.com
August 2018
Rachael directs A/in/the/of by Audrey Lang at Sugartown Shorts Play festival. The play was awarded best show of the night.
JuNE 2018
Rachael directs Workshop of You Have to Promise at Ithaca College.
This new play written by Audrey Lang was workshopped for one weekend and presented to a small audience at Ithaca College. This workshop helped us solidify the story and develop characters. Watch clips of this presentation here.
April 2018
Photo Credit: Emily Martin
Rachael begins working at UnsungMusicalCo. as an Artistic and Education Assistant.
February 2018
Rachael Stage Manages Eve Ensler's Exraordinary Measures.
November 2017
This benefit performance for Equity Fights AIDS was directed by Tony Speciale and starred James Lescene at Abingdon Theatre.
Rachael joins the box office staff at The York Theatre
November 2017
Rachael works at Reading International as a Programming and Marketing Assistant.
November 2017
There, she assists in marketing alternative content such as National Theatre Live in movie theaters cross the country.
Rachael works at Abingdon Theatre as an Intern and assists in run crew for Abingdon's 25th Anniversary Gala Performance honoring Bebe Neuwirth.
October 2017
Rachael works at The York Theatre as a Development Intern.
October 2017
There, she assists in marketing to donors and organizing the 2017 Oscar Hammerstein Award and Gala honoring Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.
Rachael works as run crew with Boomerang Theatre Company on their original musical, Loveless Texas.
September 2017
Rachael assists full bright scholar, Cynthia Henderson, in a Juilliard Workshop about Performing Arts for Social Change and Theatre of the Oppressed.
September 2017
Rachael works at Dixon Place as an Artistic and Archives Intern.
August 2017
Rachael graduates from Ithaca College with a B.A. in Theatre Studies. She graduates top of her major with Summa Cum Laude.
May 2017
Rachael's full-length play, When Misogyny Rises, has its first reading.
May 2017
Rachael films a short video for Performing Arts for Social Change about the poem, The New Colossus.
May 2017
Rachael Directs a Staged Reading of Dancing in the Rain, a new play by Audrey Lang.
May 2017
Rachael Stage Manages the Loza Plays at The Cherry Theatre.
April 2017
Rachael Directs the 2017 Wheels for Women Cabaret.
March 2017
Rachael attends the Women's March in DC.
January 2017
Rachael directs Scared of Something By Audrey Lang.
January 2017
This show is performed in The Manhattan Repertory Short Play Competition. The production makes it to final round in the competition. Watch a video of the show.
Rachael Directs Three 10-minute Plays In Ithaca College's 10-Minute Playfest.
December 2016
Rachael helps PASC coordinate a Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop with Wagner Montenegro.
September 2016
Rachael is elected Student Council Vice President of Pinecrest Lutheran Leadership School.
August 2016
Rachael serves as Assistant Director of Y2K by Sean Pollack at Midtown International festival and the Dark festival.
July 2016
This show receives an award for best ensemble.
Rachael works as a Theatre and Dance Assistant Teacher at Mount Tom Day Camp. There she helps students put on two shows.
June-August 2016
Rachael gets certified in Stage Combat in London.
May 2016
Rachael Studies Abroad in London
January-May 2016
Rachael serves as Assistant Director for (Anon)ymous by Naomi Izuka at Ithaca College directed by Jen Wineman.
December 2015
Photo Credit: Sheryl Sinkow
Rachael leads a playwriting workshop with PASC to help a high schooler write a play about Queer Youth.
November 2015
Rachael assistant directs As You Like It by Shakespeare at Ithaca College directed by Catherine Weidner.
October 2015
Photo Credit: Sheryl Sinkow