January 2024
Rachel and her writing partners Suzanne Lenz and Elizabeth Wright Williams received Honorable Mention for their short, Pencils Down in a Microgrant Competition from the Pano Network. They have plans to shoot the film later in the spring or early summer.
December 2023
R & R Productions crushed it again with their annual panto! This time performing Sleeping Beauty at Caveat. Rachel played Malignant, a spoofed version of the Disney villian, Maleficent!
December 2022 and July 2023
R&R Productions delivered another rousing holiday panto. Peter Pan-Sexual was a huge hit and Rachel brought down the house as Captain Hook! Check out the reviews here. NYC Panto later revived their smash hit panto for a Christmas in July extravaganzat at 54 Below!
June 2022
Rachel and husband Robert K. Benson appeared in the acclaimed stage production of The Refugees written and directed by Stephen Kaliski produced by the Adjusted Realists at ART/NY Theatres.
December 2021
R & R Productions had 3 sold-out shows of Sinderella by Robert K. Benson at The Duplex, NYC. Rachel played Karen, Sinderella’s Wicked Stepmother!
August 2021
Rachel performs the role of the jaded queen, Clytemnestra in The Refugees with the Adjusted Realists at Davidson College in North Carolina. Read more here.
December 2020
Rachel received a best actress nomination for her work as Nicole in Tumble Dry at the 2021 World Independent Cinema Awards festival.
October 2020
Marco premieres at the Austin Film Festival.
August 2020
The global pandemic makes things pretty slow, but Rachel records a 12 character track for the noir audio drama “Royle Pursuit” and begins booking commerical voiceovers that she records in her home studio.
January 2020
Rachel played Regina in the darkly comedic short Marco.
December 2019
R & R Productions presented 2 sold out showings of their raunchy holiday pantomime, Dick Whittington Cums to Hell’s Kitchen at the historic cabaret venue The Duplex in the West Village.
September 2019
Rachel and her husband, Rob welcomed their newest Cast member, Reggie Mark Benson on 9/11/19!
August 2019
Rachel travelled to Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina for a week to develop and perform in a workshop reading of The Refugees by Stephen Kaliski.
R & R Productions presented a selection of original music from their upcoming Christmas pantomime at The Duplex as part of their Denovan Residency requirements.
Rachel shot an episode of a popular HBO show playing a mommy to be!
June 2019
Rachel performed in a screenplay reading of Candy by Andrea Ilene Shapiro.
April 2019
Rachel travelled to Provo, Utah for a screening of Tumble Dry, a comedic short she had a principal role in at the Utah Film Festival.
Rachel played the lead role of “Vicky” in comedic short, Vicky’s Pet Retrieval .
March 2019
Rachel chatting with the gals on The Morning Blend
Rachel performed her acclaimed solo show, Dead Shot Mary to sold out crowds at the Sixth Street in Racine, Wisconsin. Watch her live interview on TMJ4’s The Morning Blend here.
Rachel playing the role of The Fairy Godmother in The Green Room at New World Stages
January 2019
Rachel and her production company, R&R productions, were awarded the Denovan Residency at the Duplex to develop their raunchy adult british panto, Dick Whittington Cums to Hell’s Kitchen for Xmas 2019 (after a successful staged reading and fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center in 2018).