About

Rachel Gita Karp writes and directs activist performances to advance US politics and public policy. In particular she focuses on protecting reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy, supporting voting and voters, and increasing gender representation in government.

Trained in writing and directing, with backgrounds in theater, US history, and activism, Rachel has created political performances in New York through Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, Mabou Mines, New Georges, The Drama League, Irondale, Judson Memorial Church, The Wild Project, The Brick, The Flea, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, Re/Venue, IRT, Dixon Place, Incubator Arts Project, Anonymous Ensemble, Women Center Stage, and Network of Ensemble Theatres. Regionally, her work has been produced at La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics, and Philly Fringe, and she has written and directed productions at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chatham University, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her work was exhibited at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial and broadcast on North Carolina public television.

Rachel has held residencies across the US including at Marble House Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Tofte Lake Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Barn Arts, Monson Arts, Wildacres, and Stove Works. She was a Beatrice Terry Resident Director at The Drama League, a Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, a Resident Artist at Mabou Mines, and a Resident Director at The Flea. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater’s Director Lab and an affiliated artist with New Georges. Rachel has associate and assistant directed 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. Currently she works as a director at the Center for Artistic Activism, where she helps advocates bring more strategic creativity to their socially-engaged work – and gets endless inspiration to continue her own.

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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