Opera, New Music, & Theatre

Maker, collaborator, director, writer, deviser, and adapter.

Rachel’s work spans new plays and adaptations, opera/new music performance, and devised physical theatre. She deploys a visual and physical aesthetic that elevates and celebrates language and music. She build work collaboratively, across image, sound and text. In addition to staging her own adaptations (The World is Round, Fire Throws, Betrothed and the upcoming In[finite] Time,) she has collaborated with some of the American Theatre’s leading playwrights and composer/librettists including Heather Christian, Naomi Iizuka, Rinde Eckert, Ellen McLaughlin and, in a new upcoming project, Eliza Bent. In recent years, she has had the honor to collaborate on a number of chamber operas, and new music/spoken word events with such renowned artists as Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Kamala Sankaram, Susan Yankowitz, Hannah Lash, Jack Quartet, and Garrett Fisher.

Background image: Features Akiko Aizawa, Saori Tsukada, Paula McGonagle, Jiehae Park in Haruki Murakami’s Sleep at the BAM Next Wave Festival. Photo: Max Gordon.