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Rachel Zake
Playwright - Here in These Woods

Rachel Zake is an award-winning writer, actor, and director whose work can be seen internationally. Rachel was a finalist for Pittsburgh New Works Festival (2025), two-time semi-finalist for the LaBute New Play Festival at St. Louis Actors Studio (2024, 2025) and semi-finalist for Ojai Playwrights Conference (2026), B Street Theatre (2026), and SheNYC (2026). She also had a play accepted into the 9th Annual New Play Lab at the 43rd William Inge Theatre Festival (2026). Her commissioned piece about the unparalleled Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland, OH (The Prospect of Equality, on stage May-June 2024) won three awards, including Best World Premiere in the Cleveland Area. Her full-length play, Nine Dinners in October, premiered at Outside Circle Theatre Project (April 2025). Currently, Rachel’s piece Communication Variables (amplifying Deaf voices) is in development in NYC. She is the Immediate Past President of the Board for Dobama Theatre, and a member of SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild of America and Dobama Theatre’s Playwrights’ GYM. She also served as Artistic Director of Playmakers Youth Theatre in Beachwood, OH. Rachel has published four books: Two People are Coming out of a Building (2014, fiction), The Nomad Diaries (2017, nonfiction), Pants Off/Dance Off: A Gentleman's Guide (2019, nonfiction) and The Actuality of Us: Leiland & Emmeline (2021, fiction). 

Rachel Zake
Playwright - Here in These Woods

Rachel Zake is an award-winning writer, actor, and director whose work can be seen internationally. Rachel was a finalist for Pittsburgh New Works Festival (2025), two-time semi-finalist for the LaBute New Play Festival at St. Louis Actors Studio (2024, 2025) and semi-finalist for Ojai Playwrights Conference (2026), B Street Theatre (2026), and SheNYC (2026). She also had a play accepted into the 9th Annual New Play Lab at the 43rd William Inge Theatre Festival (2026). Her commissioned piece about the unparalleled Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland, OH (The Prospect of Equality, on stage May-June 2024) won three awards, including Best World Premiere in the Cleveland Area. Her full-length play, Nine Dinners in October, premiered at Outside Circle Theatre Project (April 2025). Currently, Rachel’s piece Communication Variables (amplifying Deaf voices) is in development in NYC. She is the Immediate Past President of the Board for Dobama Theatre, and a member of SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild of America and Dobama Theatre’s Playwrights’ GYM. She also served as Artistic Director of Playmakers Youth Theatre in Beachwood, OH. Rachel has published four books: Two People are Coming out of a Building (2014, fiction), The Nomad Diaries (2017, nonfiction), Pants Off/Dance Off: A Gentleman's Guide (2019, nonfiction) and The Actuality of Us: Leiland & Emmeline (2021, fiction).