Rachel is a committed and experienced teaching artist who delights in students’ progress and success. Able to be highly organized or improvisational as the occasion demands, she emphasizes professional conduct and creative joy. Comfortable with all ages, Rachel utilizes knowledge gained from training, performance, and teaching to customize learning and the creative process. 

Rachel grew up in New York City in a family of artists. Her father is a professional pianist and music director, and Rachel began studying piano and music theory when she was three. In addition to learning to read and play music Rachel was always singing. As she grew up Rachel took private voice lessons and attended LaGuardia Arts High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts (the “FAME” school) in Manhattan as a voice major. Rachel graduated high school and was granted a number of awards, after which she attended Mannes College the New School for Music as a Voice Performance major. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree and spent the next few years singing opera and operetta, acting in musicals, and teaching students of all ages privately as well through several children’s music companies in NYC and Rutgers/NJIT in New Jersey.

Rachel moved to Washington, DC in 2017 and earned her MFA at George Washington University. She established herself as an exciting new addition to the theater and musical community there. During the pandemic shut down produced a weekly concert series “Night @ Newcastle”, which aired over 50 episodes and served to support local artists artistically and financially. 

In 2022 Rachel moved to Los Angeles, and has had the pleasure of performing and teaching with wonderful artists with absolutely terrific talent. She is currently a member of The Satin Dollz — whose 20 year legacy of female led excellence has led to chapters opening all over the world — and has recently been seen in productions and performances with companies such as Pacific Resident Theatre and The Groundlings. In addition to performing as an actor and musician, Rachel is an award winning composer. She has written, arranged, and directed numerous productions of theater and concert works; including a recent original show “Second Star” which offered opportunity to over a dozen performing artists and played a successful LA run in 2024.