Rachel’s NYC directing credits include award-winning The Widow of Tom’s Hill by Alex Merilo at Off Broadway’s 59E59 Theater for which she received rave reviews. and the musical My Perfect Pet by award-winning Jeff Eisenberg at Eric Kreb’s The Playroom Theater, which she then directed regionally. She was accepted into and attended the highly competitive Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (LCTDL) in 2015 under the leadership of Anne Cattaneo, who served as Lincoln Center Theater’s dramaturg for twenty-five years. At the Lincoln Center Lab, Rachel co-directed Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem and taught two workshops to her colleagues in Actors Movement and Heightened Language. That same year the lab was nominated, a second time, for a Special Tony Award. Soon after the lab, she gained acceptance into the highly competitive Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Class of 2015-2016, where she became the recipient of their Observership Program. For her Observership project, multi-award-winning director (including numerous Lawrence Olivier, Critics’ Circle, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and more) Michael Grandage hand-picked Rachel as his mentee during his direction of Hughie on Broadway starring Forest Whitaker and Frank Wood.

Regionally, Rachel has directed at Luna Stage (where she served as Literary Adviser/dramaturg/assisting in curating Luna’s season for nine years), Bickford Theater, The Theater Project, Emelin Theatre, and at many play festivals. At Luna she also took part in developing new works by numerous award-winning writers.

In higher education, Rachel directed plays and film scripts by students at the Steinberg Theater at NYU Tisch for their Graduate Dramatic Writing program for several years; directed Our Town at Montclair Kimberly Academy (for which she received two MSU Foxy Theatre nominations, one for Outstanding Stage Direction and another for Outstanding Directorial Insight), directed Little Women at Mount St. Dominic Academy (for which she received a Foxy nomination); and has been a drama instructor at numerous schools throughout New Jersey, including Director of the pre-college Summer Drama Program at Premiere Stages at Kean University. She has served as an adjudicator for the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards and the Loring Holmes and Ruth Dodd Playwrighting Contest at Clark University.