What barriers do you face during the creation process? In your daily life? Dive into full-bodied devising session that uses Lecoq-based, ensemble training to spark the actor-creator’s impulse, to enhance listening and responding onstage and to develop the ability to craft narrative, whether you are inside and outside the process. Using ensemble storytelling, Theatre of Objects and the transformative power of image and movement, the workshop culminates in an ensemble-created narratives, honestly engaging with the barriers we face. Appropriate for actors, directors, playwrights and devisors.
Rachel devises collaborative, innovative performances and help others develop new works as an actor, director, teacher, playwright and movement consultant. She currently heads the theatre program at Limestone University.
From 2006-2011, Rachel was the Co-Artistic Director of avant garde performance group, Helsinki Syndrome, performing in On the Boards’ Northwest New Works Festival (Seattle) and in Richard Forman’s Ontological-Hysteric Incubator (NYC). Rachel earned her MFA in Lecoq Based Actor Created Theatre from Naropa University at the London International School for the Arts (LISPA). She is an artist fellow with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and was a Producing Playwright with DC’s premiere playwrights collective, The Welders.
