Rachel graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has worked in many areas of the industry since. She is a member of two professional theater companies in Los Angeles and has performed, produced, written and directed over 20 plays, new and old. She received a grant from the Canada Arts Council to develop and direct an original musical, Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame, at the Banff Centre and brought it to the 2011 New York Musical Theater Festival where the Huffington Post put it on the list of top 20 shows for 2011 in New York City
As an actress Rachel's many Film and TV Guest appearances include a recurring role on Big Love, State of Georgia, a recent Movie of the Week for the Hallmark Channel, Tropic Thunder and the indy film The Giant Mechanical Man starring Jenna Fischer. On stage, she originated the role of Megan Halsey in the award winning Re-Animator the Musical directed by Stuart Gordon, which has had two runs in Los Angeles, New York and is currently playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She co-wrote a screenplay which is scheduled to be shot later this year and just completed work on her second script about an unhappy couple with jet lag.
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