Rachel Klein(VI)

Rachel Klein is a New York-based theater director, choreographer, and producer who occasionally makes forays into film. After 11 years of classical ballet training, she immersed herself in the world of circus arts and studied trapeze, tumbling, and tight rope walking at the Actors Gymnasium and clown with Kapoot Clown Theater in Chicago. In New York, she has directed and choreographed nearly 20 shows and events with many theater companies including Disgraced Productions, Junta Juleil Theatrical Productions LTD., Push Productions, Blue Box Productions, The Looking Glass Theatre, Groove Mama Ink, Another Urban Riff, The Bushwick Starr and has worked as a resident director of the Rising Sun Performance Company. She has had excepts of her work showcased by Parallel Exit, the New York Downtown Clown Review, Emerging Artist's Laugh Out Loud Festival, and at Cherchez la Femm. Recent works include "Something Weird...in the Red Room," a double feature of horror plays including Sean Gill's "Aenigma" and Benjamin Spiro's "Sir Sheever," "All Kinds of Shifty Villains," a play that explored the merging of theatrical, slapstick, and Film Noir genres, "La Enferma," an on going series of El Dia De Los Muertos inspired movement pieces, "Metro," an acrobat, dance, and clown show about people's inner thoughts while riding a subway, "The Canterville Ghost," a movement play that she adapted from the Oscar Wilde short story, and a Commedia dell'Arte production of Aristophanes' "The Frogs" in Central Park. She recently adapted, with filmmaker Sean Gill, her play "La Enferma," into a short film which debuted in New York in 2008. She also appeared as "Death" in Sean Gill's 2006 film noir "Low Lives," and as "The Weirdo" in his 2008 short creature feature, "Chewies 4: Bringing Down the House." Rachel is 2007 alumni of the International Directors Symposium with La MaMa in Spoleto, Italy and is an Associate Member of the SSDC.