Rachel Christopher recently performed in Ntozake Shange’s FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF on Broadway and in Aleshea Harris’s WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN at BAM and Playwrights Horizons. Other NY Theater credits include KING PHILIP at Clubbed Thumb, BAD NEWS: I WAS THERE directed by JoAnne Akalaitis at Skirball Center, SONIC LIFE OF A GIANT TORTOISE at The Play Company. Ms. Christopher is a recipient of the Connecticut Critic Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in An Iliad.
Film and TV credits include GIRL ON A TRAIN, THE UPSIDE, BILLIONS, INSTINCT, MADAME SECRETARY, BLINDSPOT.
Ms. Christopher is an artistic company member at Trinity Repertory Company and has been involved with new play development at The Public, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, The Lark, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Getty, Red Bull Theater, The Vineyard, New Dramatists, Yale Rep. She has served as an acting coach for Off-Broadway productions and Grammy-winning vocalists, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing.