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Rachel 's Interests
General
Theater, Trapeze, stage managing, dancing, musicals, NYC, eating tofu, ILC, improv, circus, movies, wine, books, music, FLYING, laughing, smiling my new smile, seeing my friends in shows, friends, family, DQYNJ, my adorable studio apartment, the gym, meeting cool new people, the TIME OUT lounge at New World Stages, IN THE HEIGHTS, Atypical Wednesdays, Broadway Show Softball League: Awesome Altar Ballz!!!!
Music
Musical Theater, disney music, pink floyd, CSNY, soundtracks, 80s music
Movies
Here is the pilot episode of the sitcom I have been working on!!! Watch it! It is really funny!!!!
Breaking In 'Pilot'
There are thousands of us here -- scraping out a living, competing for nonpaying acting jobs in 30-seat theaters in Bushwick, working as singing waiters while serving the tourists overcooked Denver omelets. Some people -- a few lucky ones -- will have what it takes to succeed in New York theater. They will be ushered in a private limousine from their temp receptionist job straight to their Letterman debut, while their agent BlackBerries them a breathless six-figure offer from Cameron Mackintosh.
"Breaking In" is not about those people.
It is a comedy about the others -- theater people with very little talent and even less character, each one of them convinced that they are the next chosen savior of the American stage. "Breaking In" is about the people you should avoid at all costs, the ones who will put you up in front of an audience under fluorescent lighting singing church-basement music after you've been sexually harassed in the wings. It's about the shows you're ashamed to admit that you were a part of. It's about the theater world not as we'd like it to be, but as it is. Petty. Sleazy. Crass. Dehumanizing.
And funny. We hope.
"Breaking In" -- If "The Office" were set in Off-Off-Broadway theater, it would look something like this, though it would probably be watched by way more people.
The Shawshank Redemption, Monty Python (especially "Holy Grail"), The Lord of the Rings, anything Mel Brooks, The Princess Bride, Oceans 11, The Fifth Element, Beaches, Remember the Titans, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, HAMLET, Mulan, Romeo and Julie, Shakespeare in Love, Harry Potter, Lorenzo's Oil, the italian job.... so many more!
Television
CSI Vegas, Law and Order SVU and the original, The Pretender, Rugrats, Sponge Bob Square Pants, The Fairly Odd Parents, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will and Grace, 24 (eeeeeeeee!!!!), PROJECT RUNWAY, Scrubs, HOUSE
Books
The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, ENDER'S GAME series, 1984, Brave New World, Shakespeare, Beach Music, Memoires of a Geisha, WICKED, Angels in America, PROOF, She's come undone, the lovely bones,
About me: I work as a stage manager in New York City and absolutly love it. I also teach flying trapeze at the Espana/Streb Trapeze Academy. www.espanastrebtrapeze.org check it out! I have an insane amount of energy and try to surround myself with people, music and activities that make me happy. I love to laugh, smile and be happy and I give great hugs! I love New York, and I think it has the most amazing energy and most positive vibe. I never want to leave! I graduated UC Irvine with a BA in drama, and now work with the UCI based theater company Coyote REP here in NYC!!!
I play in the Broadway Show Softball League with the Awesome Altar Ballz. The Awesome 80's Prom and Altar Boyz have a joint team! It is super fun!!!! (yes, you read correctly, I AM playing softball)
Currently, I am running props at "The Awesome 80's Prom" (every saturday night at Webster Hall) It is superawesome fun!!!
And I'm doing NYMF this year again! Don't miss "The Brain from Planet X" sept 20-30th at The Acorn at theater row! More info to come!!!!!!
"Why walk when you can fly?"
I got my background from 123backgrounds.com
Who I'd like to meet: EVERYONE.......I love to meet new people....but if I HAD to choose it would have to be Norbert Leo Butz
