THE HIGH PRIESTESS
A NEW PLAY BY ANDREW MARTINI
The High Priestess was produced by Permafrost Theatre Collective and recorded and broadcast live from The Dragon’s Egg in Ledyard, CT in 2021. Rachel also directed a staged reading of The High Priestess as a part of the Emerging Artists Theatre’s 2022 New Works Series, October 2022.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
A GENDER-BENT ADAPTATION OF THE CLASSIC TOM STOPPARD PLAY
This gender-bent, 90-minute version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was originally produced by 3DaysPrior at the Theater Upstairs at St. Paul’s in Williamsburg, NY in June of 2019. After its sold out run there, it was invited to be remounted as a part of The Brick’s Shakespeare Festival where it had a second sold-out run in August of 2019. All photos by Sam Grant.
GOOD FRIDAY
A PLAY BY KRISTIANA RAE COLON, DIR. SHERRI EDEN BARBER
good friday by Kristiana Rae Colon, directed by Sherri Eden Barber, and associate directed by Rachel Karp opened at the Flea Theater in February of 2019. Photos by Joan Marcus.
TWELFTH NIGHT
A GENDER-BENT ADAPTATION OF THE PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, DIR. SHERRI EDEN BARBER.
This queer-reclamation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was directed by Sherri Eden Barber and associate directed by Rachel Karp with Fordham Lincoln Center’s undergrad theater students in October/November of 2019. Photos by Hunter Canning.
EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH
A PLAY BY SHEILA CALLAGHAN
Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan was produced as Skidmore College’s Spring 2018 Black-Box Production. Photos by Sue Kessler.
ANTIGONE
BY BERTOLT BRECHT, TRANSLATED BY JUDITH MALINA
Inspired by The Living Theatre and the current political climate and featuring original music devised by cast members, this production was staged at Skidmore College’s Wilson Chapel in November of 2017. Photos by Dante Haughton.
4.48 PSYCHOSIS
A PLAY BY SARAH KANE
Staged as a Studio Lab at Skidmore College in the spring of 2017, this production of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis aimed to reinvent the text as more than a suicide note. Inspired in part by events in Rachel’s hometown, the production explored the ripple effects a suicide has throughout a community, and the human connections that persevere in the face of mental illness.Photos by Dante Haughton.
OF WHITE WALLS AND WORDS
A NEW PLAY BY RACHEL KARP, FEATURING SOURCE TEXT FROM 16TH CENTURY ESSAYIST MONTAIGNE
Of White Walls and Words was staged as a Studio Lab at Skidmore College in the Spring of 2016. Photos by Dante Haughton.