About

Rachel Gita Karp writes and directs activist performances for reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, voting and voters, and increased gender representation in politics.

Rachel has developed and directed new performances about these topics and more through The Drama League, Clubbed Thumb, Irondale, Mabou Mines, Ars Nova, Brooklyn Arts Council, the Center for Artistic Activism, the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics, Actors Theatre of Louisville, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Wild Project, The Brick, The Flea, IRT, Dixon Place, Philly Fringe, PlayPenn, Incubator Arts Project, Women Center Stage, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Barn Arts, Monson Arts, Orchard Project, Marble House Project, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Tofte Lake Center, Wildacres, the Powerhouse and Samuel French Festivals, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chatham University, Columbia University's graduate and undergraduate schools, and Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama.

Associate and assistant directing credits include productions on Broadway, Off-, and regional, including the Tony-winning The Waverly Gallery and productions through Signature Theatre, A.R.T., The Mad Ones, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, 13P, Big Art Group, Woodshed Collective, PearlDamour, and the Humana Festival.

Rachel is a Program Director at the Center for Artistic Activism, where she leads pro-voter and health equity initiatives, and she is a recent Beatrice Terry Resident Director at The Drama League, Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, and grantee of the Brooklyn Arts Council. She has been a First Stage Resident Director at The Drama League, a Resident Artist at Mabou Mines, an Avant Gardens Resident through Anonymous Ensemble, a Resident Director at The Flea, a Creative Fellow at Town Stages, a Directing Intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Her work has been featured in the Prague Quadrennial and shown on North Carolina public television.

She received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. At Carnegie Mellon she was a John Wells Directing Fellow, which supported her academics, and a Milton and Cynthia Friedman Fellow, which supported her work in women's policy research in Washington, D.C.

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