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Upcoming projects in 2026 and beyond

Rachel will co-design and direct Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual with the renowned SilkRoad Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens.

For Ripe Time, she creating two new projects: WomenWaterRising, a song cycle/video installation project created with Jean Rohe and Hana S. Kim

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In[finite] Time created with Grammy winning performer and composer Rinde Eckert Based loosely on sections of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, the work follows a father and a daughter navigating illness and the power of poetry to heal. Taking place within an old abandoned house, an ICU room, and a landscape transformed through time and memory, the piece immerses its audience in a striking tale of what we need most in times of loss and peril. In development. To Premiere in 2026-27.

Towards Embodied Performance: Directing and the Art of Composition is available for sale (June 2024.) It is a book that aims to bridge what is often considered “traditional” directing training and the training into experimental, devised theatre-making. A guide for the generative director looking to make embodied performance with psychological and compositional truth. And a comprehensive history of Ripe Time’s work and Rachel’s journey as a director. Published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis.

Rachel will be directing Star Singer, a new opera by Juhi Bansal and Neil Aitkin to premiere in 2027 -28 with LA Opera/ Beth Morrison Projects/ Prototype.

Rachel is currently writing the libretto to a new opera project based on Alexandra Zapruder’s critically acclaimed collection of teenage diarists from the Holocaust Salvaged Pages. Music by Michael Zapruder. Direction by Omer Ben Seadia. (In development.)

(Background photo featuring Heather Christian, April Matthis, Amber Gray, and Philip Taratula in the workshop production of The World is Round.)