Rachel Reiner


Beginning her theatre career as the playwright, director and star of her fourth grade class play, Rachel Reiner has gone on to produce several off and off-off-Broadway plays and readings in the last ten years.

Rachel is producing Embraceable Me, a romantic comedy by Victor L. Cahn, at the Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row in the fall of 2009.

In 2006, Rachel produced the off-Broadway world premiere of Crazy for the Dog by Christopher Boal in an 11 week run at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre.

Rachel produced Fit to Kill, a suspense-thriller by Cahn at the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, a developmental production of Zimmerman by Frank Barth at the Sanford Meisner Theater, and readings of bender/gender/straight/neutered by Larry Kunofsky and Variations on a Marriage by Brad Desch.

She was the Associate Producer for the Directors Company's production of Love in the Age of Narcissism by Brad Desch, Associate Producer of Rapt by Roland Tec at the Culture Project, and the Executive Producer for the Oberon Theatre Ensemble productions of The Winter's Tale, Of Mice and Men and Measure for Measure.

As the Senior Manager of Membership Services and Education Programs at The Broadway League, Rachel coordinates the New Producers Alliance, the Education Committee, forums and conferences.

Rachel is also the Managing Director of Resonance Ensemble, a theatre company dedicated to producing classic plays and new work inspired by the timelessness and universalism of the classics. Resonance Ensemble has produced world premiere plays by Charles L. Mee, Arthur Giron, Larry Loebell, Victor L. Cahn and Christopher Boal in the past few years.

Rachel graduated summa cum laude from the Theatre Department at Brandeis University, where she produced Pippin; Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth; Sight Unseen; Driving Miss Daisy; Anything Goes; You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Lost In Yonkers; Merrily We Roll Along and Chess. She is currently the Chair of the Brandeis University Alumni Association's New York City Performing Arts Network.

Rachel completed the fourteen-week producing course at the Commercial Theatre Institute, and is currently co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women after having served as co-Secretary and chair of the Networking Committee.