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Upcoming projects

Towards Embodied Performance: Directing and the Art of Composition is coming out in June 2024. It is a book that aims to bridge what is often considered “traditional” directing training and the training into experimental, devised theatre-making. A guide for the generative director looking to make embodied performance with psychological and compositional truth. And a comprehensive history of Ripe Time’s work and Rachel’s journey as a director. Published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Available for pre-order in May!

Compass had its world premiere at Arizona’s ASU Gammage’s Beyond Series in April 2023! The show will tour in 2024 and 2025 dates and locations TBA! Ripe Time’s production is represented by Tour Producer Amanda Cooper/ ALC Management. For information, photos see our show page!

Rachel and Grammy winning performer and composer Rinde Eckert are starting to build a new music theatre work, In[finite] Time. Based loosely on sections of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, the work follows a father and a daughter navigating illness and the power of poetry to heal. Taking place within an old abandoned house, an ICU room, and a landscape transformed through time and memory, the piece immerses its audience in a striking tale of what we need most in times of loss and peril. In development. To Premiere in 2025.

Rachel will be directing Star Singer, a new opera by Juhi Bansal and Neil Aitkin to premiere in 2026 with LA Opera/ Beth Morrison Projects/ Prototype. (Workshop in February 2024 at the Ebel Theatre, LA)

Rachel is currently writing the libretto to a new opera project based on Alexandra Zapruder’s critically acclaimed collection of teenage diarists from the Holocaust Salvaged Pages. Music by Michael Zapruder. Direction by Omer Ben Seadia. (In development.)

Rachel is collaborating with composer Garrett Fisher on a new song cycle, Modern Virgin, based on the poetry of Finnish writer Edith Sodergran and performed by Fisher and Maria Mannisto. New York Theatre Workshop workshop May 2023. In development.

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(Background photo featuring Heather Christian, April Matthis, Amber Gray, and Philip Taratula in the workshop production of The World is Round.)