Career
Rachel"s first feature was "Don"t Pass Maine By", a film she wrote, produced, and starred in alongside Hollywood veterans Keith David, C. Thomas Howell and Sean Stone. Soon after, Rachel wrote, produced and starred in the award-winning short film Paramnesia that was selected to be a part of the acclaimed horror collective Fun Size Horror Volume 1, which made a splash in the Los Angeles festival scene, and was released worldwide in 2015. Around the same time, Rachel made her directorial debut with the short film Half Light, a film she also wrote and starred in.
This film put her in consideration for a directing fellowship with Home Box Office, and landed her as a quarter-finalist in the NexTV directing talent search.
Rachel founded Emergence Films in 2015 with producer/writer Natalie Mitchell, and producer Sienna Beckman. The company is committed to the emerging voices of female filmmakers, and stories that features strong, complex and multi-dimensional women.
Rachel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico immersed in a community of art, music, and theater. She moved to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College where, along with a rigorous course load, Rachel was cast in an array of challenging roles throughout her four years, including She Stoops to Conquer, As You Like lieutenant and The Last Five Years, stretching her as an actress and instilling in her a love for complex characters and good stories.
Rachel worked for several years solely as an actress, performing as a company member at The Ruskin Group Theater, appearing on the United States of America series MONK, working on several commercials, print campaigns and a handful of independent films, before she found herself getting increasingly restless waiting for other people to offer her work.
So she started creating her own.