Rachel is an award winning filmmaker, actor and screenwriter with a focus on female-driven films and bringing the female gaze to stories and genres traditionally dominated by a male perspective.

Rachel grew up in Santa Fe, NM. She moved to Los Angeles to attend Occidental College, and went on to study and work in the LA area for over a decade. Rachel spent her first few years in LA working solely as an actor before she found herself getting increasingly restless waiting for other people to offer her work. So she started creating her own.

Rachel’s first feature was ‘Don’t Pass Me By,’ a film she wrote, produced, and starred in alongside Hollywood veterans Keith David, C. Thomas Howell and Sean Stone. Rachel won Best Feature Writer at the LA Femme Festival for the script, and the film was released worldwide in February of 2014.

Soon after, Rachel produced and co-wrote the feature film ‘The Storyteller’ which won the Silver Prize in the Family Film category in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and was released on Hallmark Movies Now after winning multiple awards in the festival circuit.

Additional credits include the multiple award-winning short film ‘Paramnesia’ that was released as part of acclaimed horror collective Fun Size Horror Volume 1, the short film ‘Half Light’ that was released exclusively through Seed&Spark, and the short ‘Follow The River’ that won Rachel honorable mention in the Port Orchard Film Festival.

More recently, Rachel made her feature directorial debut with the film, ‘Ingress’ which she also wrote and starred in.  The film was nominated for upward of 10 awards in international film festivals, and had a 10 screen theatrical release and is now available on streaming in the US on Amazon Prime, Vimeo on Demand, and Fandango at Home.

Rachel also just completed the feature film ‘Inheritance’ as a writer, producer and lead actor. Inheritance had its world premiere at Dances with Films in June of 2024 with a packed house at The Chinese Theater in Hollywood and signed with international sales agent One Tree Entertainment.

Rachel is the co-founder of the female-focused production company Emergence Films.