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Rachel Beth Greene (she/her) is a playwright, performer, and multi-hyphenate theatre artist creating explosive, brave, and unapologetic works of theatre. Born and raised in suburban Ohio, she is now proudly based in Boston as she pursues her MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. As a playwright, Rachel lovingly crafts multi-dimensional fat woman characters and put them center stage. And not plucky, saccharine Tracy Turnblad-types; she's talking flawed, endearing, sexual, messy, vengeful, powerful fat bodies. Her work most often wrestles with the thorny intersections of consent, agency, power dynamics pushed to their furthest extremes, academia, and gender and sexual politics. Rachel’s plays include JOHN DESERVES TO DIE (Fresh Ink Theater Company, Tier5 Theatre Company, LakehouseRanchDotPng, First Kiss Theatre Company), XOXOLOLA (LakehouseRanchDotPng), Guts (The Rockwell, First Kiss Theatre Company/The Brick), Power Play (Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, Brick Road Productions, Artists’ Theater of Boston), and Margaret My Name (Brandeis University). As a performer, Rachel is drawn to new plays, Shakespeare (with a fresh twist, please), and adaptations of classical works. Her artistic style is rooted in classical training and ignited by contemporary conversations and influences, specifically the work of female pop and punk music artists. She has performed recently across Boston, NYC, and beyond, at Boston Theater Company, SheNYC Arts Festival, TC Squared Theater, Third Citizen Theatre Co., The Boston Theater Marathon, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Rubber City Theater, and more. Rachel has worked throughout Boston as an educator and arts administrator, most recently as the Social Media Coordinator at the American Repertory Theater. Rachel holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors awarded for her senior acting thesis, Margaret My Name. |
