RACHEL ANDERSON-RABERN

Fringe Festivals Etc




she didn't want to be found
Conceived and directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Co-created with Holly Andrew, Payton Becker, Sena Taskapilioqlu
Collaborators: Quanece Thompson, Atticus Rabern
The Iron Factory, Philadelphia Fringe Festival (2019)


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Age of Revolution

A staging of three lyric voices of Russian symbolist poetry:
Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius, Marina Tsvetaeva.
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Co-conceived by Rachel Anderson-Rabern and Jon Stone
Collaborators: Holly Andrew, Elizabeth Cizmar, Sands Hall​
​Phillips Museum, Franklin and Marshall College (2017)




Three Sisters and a Wolf

Chekhov's Three Sisters meets the history of the last sightings of wild wolves in Pennsylvania.
 
Conceived and directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern

Collaborators: Pamela Vail, Holly Andrew, Amanda Schumacher, Charlotte Brooks, Vanessa Hart, Charlie Wynn
Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia Fringe Festival (2015)





​Tell It Slant

Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
By Sharmon Hilfinger and Joan Mcmillen
Bootstrap Theater Foundation, Pear Avenue Theater
 2009


*Winner of the Silicon Valley Award for Standout New Work



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​​Farewell to a Cannibal Rage

Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
By Femi Osofisan
Stanford Summer Theater (2007)



Head Over Heels: The Musical
​An outdoor, socially distanced musical comedy (hello, pandemic theatre!) staged at F&M's Winter Visual Arts Center. Songs by 1980s new wave quintet, The Go-Go's, and a plot inspired by Sir Philip Sydney's 16th-century prose romance, “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.”
By Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Anya Reiss
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Assistant Director: Priyanka Patil '21

Music Director: Julia Kamanda
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2020)
Digital Program available here. 


The Seagull
This production conversed with Chekhov's play as a provocation to theatre history and to our ongoing theatrical moment. We asked, what might this story reveal to us if we staged it with women and gender expansive performers? How could the symbol of “the seagull” then transform?
By Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Anya Reiss
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: Shannon Zura
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2020)


Anon (ymous)
An adaptation of
The Odyssey through the eyes of a young refugee as he traverses the American landscape. This production also had free performances at the Lancaster Visitor's Center and Lancaster City's YWCA.
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By Naomi Iizuka
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: Shannon Zura
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2019)


Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play
In a post-apocalyptic world, The Simpsons are the source material for a new performance-based economy. 
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By Anne Washburn
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: Debra Holmes
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2017)


Arcadia​
One room, two time periods, a mystery, and math. 

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: John Whiting
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2017)

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One Man, Two Guvnors
Goldoni's commedia Servant of Two Masters meets Brighton in the 1960s. With a live band. 

By Richard Bean
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: John Whiting
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2016)




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Three Sisters
Moscow is a longed-for utopia, musicians stalk outside the windows, and no one loves who they should. 

By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: John Whiting
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2015)


Spring Awakening: The Musical 
A musical retelling of Wedekind's controversial masterpiece about innocence, desire, rebellion, and the violence of childhood. 

Music by Duncan Sheik
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: Christopher Hoyt
Music Direction: Coralie Gallet
​University of New Haven (2014)


Secret in the Wings 
Dark fairytales tangle with song, dance, shadow puppets, drag, and babysitting. 

By Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic and Lighting Design: Christopher Hoyt
Costume Design: Valerie Webster
University of New Haven (2013)


War Story
A site-specific collection of song, spoken word, and scenes dedicated to exploring veteran combat and post-combat experiences. 

Conceived and directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
University of New Haven (2013)


Propositions
A site-specific, devised response to California's 2009 ballot propositions.

Co-directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern and Matthew Moore
Stanford University (2009)



R&L
World premiere, site specific choreopoem production about Asian-American experience. Produced by Stanford's Asian American Theatre Project. 

By Takeo Rivera
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Stanford University (2008)


The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
Translation by Marina Brodskaya
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic Design: Erik Flatmo
​Lighting Design: Michael Ramsaur
Costume Design: Connie Strayer
Stanford University (2006)


​She: In Absence of Love and Death
6 visible stage spaces with continuous simultaneous action: In Moscow in the 1970s she is a lonely lover, an irreverent dreamer, a rebellious daughter, and the obsession of jazz musicians. She lives in a world of melodies and double meanings: love is still love, even if it's imagined.

By Edvard Radzinsky
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic Design: Erik Flatmo
​Lighting Design: Michael Ramsaur
Costume Design: Connie Strayer
Stanford University (2005)
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