Rachel Evans (Writer, performer) is an actress, playwright and teaching artist. Past Off-Broadway credits include: The Blue Bird (Urban Stages), and Macrune’s Guevara and Richard and Anne (Mirror Repertory Company). Other New York and regional credits include: The Silkie (Urban Stages Library Tour), 365 Days/365 Plays (Clubbed Thumb), Someone Borrowed, Someone Blue (NJ Repertory Company), Bridal Suite (Manhattan Theatre Source), The Vagina Monologues (Millbrook Playhouse), and The Trojan Women (Oval Theatre, London) among many others. Her play, Waiting, premiered in 2006 at Elevator Up Theatre Company’s Summer Shorts Festival and she writes a monthly column for www.nyblueprint.com. Rachel has been a writer and improviser with The Eddie Fitzsimmons Show, and Top Heavy. She is also a member of the new theatre company, Project Rushmore. She has studied improv at the People’s Improv Theater and is a teaching artist with Making Books Sing and The Women’s Project, among others. She holds a BA in Theater and English from Tufts University and is currently attending the MA in Applied Theatre program at CUNY with the Creative Arts Team.
Rachel Eckerling (Director) is a New York based director. She worked for several years with Francis Ford Coppola on both theatre and film projects. Mr. Coppola commissioned her film adaptation of the best-selling novel, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank. In 2005, she led a screenplay-writing workshop with writer/director Paul Schrader. Most recently she directed The Diary of a Teenage Girl at 3LD Arts & Technology Center; Burnt Umber with The Combustibles, at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Marco Jo Clate’s Real! Live! America!, as part of the New York Fringe Festival, and co-produced and created The Grid at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center. Currently also directing at the Fringe, Questions My Mother Can't Answer. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Sound Designer: M. King
Set and Prop Designer: Lauren Asta