Biography
Rachel Lynn Brody’s produced theater work includes one-act plays POST (1999 Write To Be Heard Award Winner), PLAYING IT COOL, STUCK UP A TREE, MOUSEWINGS and GREEN BEER AND BAGELS.
She has also written and produced a number of short films. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Buffalo News, The Spectrum, Rogues & Vagabonds, and The British Theatre Guide.
Rachel has experience in blogging, freelance copywriting, fashion writing and more.
She holds an MFA Dramatic Writing and a BA in Media Studies (Video Production). POST is now available for sale on Amazon Kindle.
Rachel is currently based in New York City.
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My 10-Minute Play “Millennial Ex” wins honorable mention from Stone Soup Theater Company, Seattle, WA
“A drunken proposal after the passage of the NYS Marriage Equality act leads to an awkward morning after for one gay couple in New York City.” Millennial Ex has just been awarded an honorable mention by Stone Soup; it was entered in their … Continue reading
THEATER REVIEW: “Fairytale” from The Shelter at the 45th Street Theatre
Fairy Tale is collaborative company The Shelter’s set of five short plays inspired by classic fairy tales. Their inspiration spans cultures and languages, tackling both traditional retellings and total re-imaginings. Solidly produced with exceptional production values, the play begins and ends … Continue reading
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Halloween Theater with an Ugly Rhino: Warehouse of Horrors at the Brooklyn Lyceum
Sleep No More set off a reverberation through the NYC theater scene, becoming both a litmus test – did you see it? What did you think? Wasn’t it amazing? – among those able to attend and a measuring stick by which … Continue reading
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THEATER REVIEW: “Two-Man Kidnapping Rule” at the New Ohio Theatre
“One evening in the lives of three 20-something suburban friends who find themselves at a crossroads. A bittersweet look at a contemporary male friendship in decline.” So described by the New Ohio Theatre, Joseph Gallo’s Two-Man Kidnapping Rule is … Continue reading
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Theater Review: MANGELLA by Ken Ferrigni at The Drilling Company
To those who know me off this blog (and probably a number of you on it), the news that I’ve been a geek since before it was cool isn’t going to come as any big surprise. Partly because of that, … Continue reading
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Theatre, Theater, Theatre, THEATER.
It’s sweltering in New York City, but over in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is about to begin. This three-week theater extravaganza holds a special place in my heart, as it was in Edinburgh that my plays Playing It … Continue reading
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THEATER REVIEW: “Insidious” at Road Less Traveled Productions, Buffalo, New York
Sex can be deadly. Anyone who came of age during or after the AIDs crisis knows the line, “Every time you sleep with someone, you’re sleeping with every person they ever slept with.” And yet, people persist in making unwise … Continue reading
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THEATER REVIEW: “New Works 4: International Short Play Festival” at the Richmond Shepard Theatre
On its last evening at the Richard Shepherd Theater, the New Works 4: International Short Play Festival presented its program without an intermission. A collection of six short works presented as bare-bones stagings presented pieces both amorphous and direct.
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The Donners are Deaded: Discussion of a Work in Progress
In Guide and (The Myth Of) Infinite Progress, an intriguing little double-bill-in-development at Williamsburg’s The Brick theater, Cara Marsh Sheffler and Luke Cissell have begun a journey to accomplish that feat. Their subject? The man whose book, The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon, was behind the fateful “shortcut” taken by the Donner party in 1846: Lansford Warren Hastings, Esquire. Continue reading
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