Rachel’s New York City directing credits include the award-winning The Widow of Tom’s Hill by Alex Merilo at 59E59 Theaters for which she received rave reviews and the children’s musical My Perfect Pet by Jeff Eisenberg at Eric Kreb’s The Playroom Theater, which she also 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 LCTDL Rachel co-directed Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem and taught two workshops to her colleagues in Actors Movement and Heightened Language. The year she attended, the lab was nominated, a second time, for a Tony Award. Soon after the lab, her acceptance into the highly competitive Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Class of 2015-2016 led to her making it to the final rounds where she became a recipient of their Observership Program. For her Observership project, multi-award-winning director Michael Grandage hand-picked her to accompany him as he directed Hughie on Broadway starring Forest Whitaker and Frank Wood.

Regionally, Rachel has directed at Luna Stage, Bickford Theater, The Theater Project, Emelin Theatre, among others, and at many play festivals. For nine years Rachel served as Literary Advisor to Luna Stage, assisting in curating each season’s repertoire, where she also took part in developing new works by numerous award-winning writers. In education, Rachel directed plays by students at the Steinberg Theater at NYU Tisch in the 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 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.