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Rachel conceives, devises and directs new opera and performance works. She has worked as a freelance theatre and opera director for over two decades alongside running Ripe Time, a theatre company based in Brooklyn, NY founded in 2000 and devoted to crafting visually based, socially engaged, physical theatre for the 21st century. Rachel's work with Ripe Time includes such projects as Haruki Murakami's Sleep (BAM Next Wave Festival), The World is Round (BAM-Fisher, Obie Awards), and Septimus and Clarissa (Drama League, Drama Desk and Joe A Calloway Award nominations). Her work has been seen in New York at such venues as BAM, Prototype, and the Miller Theatre and nationally at the Annenberg Center (PA), LA Opera, Yale Rep and more. Rachel is currently developing a new interview based project COMPASS about advocacy, system change, and intersectional feminism recently developed at a Watermill Center and now at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center as part of a year long Impact Residency from the Drama League of NY. Rachel has been a Usual Suspect at NYTW since 1995 and served on the Faculty at Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts since 2011. She currently co-chairs the Theatre and Performance Dept and curates their Mainstage season programming.