
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.