Rachel studied acting at East 15 Acting School,
after which she has done a little less acting but a lot more writing.
She is currently working as a freelance writer and producer. She
escaped the deepest darkest depths of middle England and having
tried out London and New York for size currently resides in Glasgow,
Scotland.
Current
Rachel is in development with her first musical
The
Gates and is working on her second
musical Miss Smith. She is developing a short drama
for the Traverse Theater, Traverse Wildfire Ten-Minute Challenge.
As well as writing her third collection of poetry Things Poeple
Don't Want to Hear About. She will publish her second collection
of poems, 'Laughin' Lesbians Vol 2' late in 2009.
She also is the porducer for the text based arts
organisation conFAB.
History
Rachel has been performing her poetry for the
past seven years at a variety of locations across Britain and
Europe from Brighton to Dundee to Dublin.
Venues include:
Glasgay! Arts Festival, Glasgow | Creatures, Manchester | Lyrical
Lounge, London | Manchester, Mardigras | Angel Delight, Edinburgh
| Ladyfest, London, Glasgow | Cherrybomb, Edinburgh | Pride Scotland
| Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh | Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow |
Glass Bar, London | Southopia, London | Bigword, Edinburgh | Bigword,
Glasgow | Dundee Alternative Arts Festival | ALAF Lesbian Arts
Festival, Dublin | Spit-lit Literary Festival, London | Underword,
Manchester | Per Verse, Manchester | conFAB, Glasgow | Kairos
in Soho, London | Gingerbeer, London | Pride, Manchester | WIT,
Wales | Pride, Newscastle | Tchai Ovna, Glasgow | Duke of York,
Belfast | Sounding Out, Leicester | Quodos, Glasgow University
| Kairos In Soho, London | Marlborough Theatre, Brighton | Brighton
Pride | Museum of Scotland | Greenroom, Manchester | Boarders,
Glasgow | Silencio, Edinburgh |
Other
Jackie Forster Memorial Award for Culture,
Pride Awards 2006, for outstanding contribution
to culture in Scotland.
Her poems and short stories have been published
in: Chameleon, Nomad, Cutting Teeth, Citizen 32, Poetry Scotland,
The Gay Read and Hidden City, Mookychick
