ABOUT RACHEL
Rachel Klein is a New York City based director and director/choreographer, specializing in new play and musical development.
Off-Broadway: The Gospel According to Heather (Theatre 555; starring Katey Sagal); Red Roses, Green Gold (Minetta Lane Theatre/ft. the music of the Grateful Dead); Around the World in 80 Days (The Davenport Theatre); The Anthem (Lynn Redgrave Theatre). Selected NYC: Tink! (NYMF); More Than All the World (Theatre for the New City); Circus of Circus (The House of Yes) The Tragedy of Maria Macabre (Tides Foundation Commission); Symphony of Shadows (Jerome Robbins Foundation Commission).
Selected Regional: Spells of the Sea (The Kennedy Center), Esther (The George Theatre; starring Sharna Burgess of Dancing with the Stars),The Suffragist (Gallagher Bluedorn Theatre; starring Nancy Opel), Dead Certain (composer: Air Supply's Graham Russell); 54 the Musical (House of Independents; starring Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Frankie Grande). Selected Workshops & Readings: High Priest (Paul Iacono’s meditation on the Warhol Factory); Helen (Starring Bonnie Milligan), Almost Got 'Em (starring Marc Kudisch, Alison Fraser, Brooks Ashmanskas, Howard McGillin, and Jim Walton); Medusa: A New Pop Opera; Girlfriend From Hell (the 80's horror rock comedy). Charity: Ms. Klein directed the charity roast of Michael Musto raising funds for the Callen Lorde Community Health Center, featuring Rosie O'Donnell, Bruce Vilanch, Bianca Del Rio, Randy Rainbow, and Jinkx Monsoon.
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Ms. Klein's direction and choreography have been featured across the country, most notably:
THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MUSICAL THEATRE
THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
LA MAMA E.T.C.
THE KITCHEN
SONY HALL
THE HOUSE OF YES
(LE) POISSON ROUGE
THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB
NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP
LINCOLN CENTER’S MERKIN HALL
THE NEW YORK INNOVATIVE THEATRE AWARDS
DIXON PLACE
GREEN ROOM 42
54 BELOW
TIMES SQUARE FOR PLAYBILL PRIDE
THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
...AND THE LEGENDARY NIGHTLIFE EVENT
'NIGHT OF THE 1000 STEVIES'
Ms. Klein is a proud member of SDC, founding member of Iconoclast Theatre Collective, guest teaching artist at Fordham University, serves on the New Musical Screening Committee for NAMT, directed Double, Double for Bite Sized Broadway (ft. Richard Kind) and was the Director/Showrunner of the audio series The World to Come (ft. Adrienne Barbeau).
SOCIAL MEDIA
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