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BY THREE SHEETS
A one-on-one bedtime story. About art. Over the phone.

Conceived and directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
With Holly Andrew, Matthew Butcher, James Morogiello, Luke Solocoff, Jonathan Teklit, Quanece Thompson
​Philadelphia Fringe Festival (2022)

Winner: Best Digital Performance
she didn't want to be found
BY THREE SHEETS
An immersive performance installation in 27 distinct stations

​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)
Age of Revolution
A staging of three lyric voices of Russian symbolist poetry, in conjunction with the exhibition:
"Onward with the Revolution: Late Soviet-Era Posters"
Poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Zinaida Gippius, Marina Tsvetaeva.​

​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
BY THREE SHEETS
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
A play with music focused on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson.

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

Winner: Silicon Valley Award for Standout New Work

Colleges and Universities
​​​Farewell to a Cannibal Rage
A Nigerian tale of community, war, storytelling, and
​moon-crossed lovers.

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


Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl
A TYA play with music about a small town who contends with a girl with a pouch and sound-stealing powers. This production also toured free performances to the North Museum and Lancaster City's YMCA.

By Lisa D'Amour
Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic Design: Caitlyn Bishop and Jason Thompson (F&M Sculpture)
Lighting Design: Melissa Edwards
Costume Design: Holly Andrew
Music Composition: Julia Kamanda
Sound Design: Rachel Anderson-Rabern
​Franklin and Marshall College (2022)
The Winter's Tale
A transplant of Shakespeare's meditation on magic and miracles into a subtitled, multimedia micro-audience event in which actors and audience members shared the environmental stage space. 

Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Scenic, Lighting, and Video Design: Kent Barrett
Costume Design: Virginia West
Sound Design: Rachel Anderson-Rabern
​Franklin and Marshall College (2021)

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 plot inspired by Sir Philip Sydney's 16th-century prose romance, “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.”

Directed by Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Assistant Director: Priyanka Patil '21
Music Director: Julia Kamanda
Costume Design: Virginia West
​Franklin and Marshall College (2020)

The Seagull
A conversation with Chekhov's play as a provocation to theatre history and to our ongoing theatrical moment. Salient questions: what might this story reveal if we stage it with women and gender expansive performers? How might the symbol of “the seagull” consequently 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)
A TYA adaptation of The Odyssey through the eyes of a young refugee as he traverses the American landscape. This production also toured free performances to 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. 
​
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)
​
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)