Keystone College - Communication
Playwright & Writer
Writing & Editing
Rachel Luann
Strayer
Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
I'm a creative, hard-working individual with unique ideas about utilizing theatre arts in educational and community settings. I am a budding playwright and an aspiring novelist. I hope to carve out a career path for myself that better taps into my abilities as a writer, actress, director, and educator.
Grader
Rachel worked at Penn Foster as a Grader
Actress / Director
Acting Credits:
Horatio, HAMLET, 2018
Prospero, THE TEMPEST, 2017
Woman, THE POE ASYLUM, 2016
M'lynn, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, 2015
Adriana, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, 2015
Lady Macbeth, MACBETH, 2014
Mrs. Ford, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, 2013
Beatrice, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 2011
Murderess, A MIDNIGHT DREARY, 2011
Helena, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, 2010
Feste, TWELFTH NIGHT, 2009
Directing Credits:
JULIUS CAESAR, 2016
ALMOST, MAINE, 2015
SCENES FROM METAMORPHOSES, 2014
ROMEO & JULIET, 2012
A MIDNIGHT DREARY: THE RAVEN, 2011
THE MOUSETRAP, 2010
Director of Theatre
Taught Playwriting, Acting I, Acting II, Directing for the Stage, Introduction to Theatre, Studies in Dramatic Literature, Survey of Technical Theatre, Speech, Professional Speech, and Utopian/Dystopian Literature.
Directing Credits:
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, 2019
THE POE ASYLUM, 2018
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 2018
THE 39 STEPS, 2017
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, 2017
ALMOST, MAINE 2016
Assistant Professor
Taught Speech Communication, Professional Speech, American Literature, World Literature, and Public Relations.
Playwright
Writing Credits:
DROWNING OPHELIA
~ Production, University of Idaho, 2019
~ Production, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 2016
~ Production, Gaslight Theatre Company, Scranton, 2016
~ Production, Repurposed Theatre, San Francisco, 2013
THE POE ASYLUM
~ Production, Keystone College, La Plume, 2018
~ Production, Scranton Fringe Festival, 2016
THE LAST DAUGHTER
~ Reading, The Scranton Shakespeare Festival, 2018
~ Reading, Ensemble Atria, NYC, 2018
Short Plays produced for Gaslight Theatre Company's PLAYROOM Series:
SISTERS, 2018
SAFE AS HOUSES, 2017
ENOUGH, 2016
IN THE DARK, 2015
THE NEXT STEP, 2014
A CLEAN BATHROOM, 2013
EMPATHY, 2012
Freelance Writer
Rachel worked at Wilkes Alumni Magazine as a Freelance Writer
Master of Arts (MA)
Creative Writing / Playwriting
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Creative Writing / Playwriting
Bachelor's degree
Communications and Theatre
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.
Purple Belt in Combat Karate
Combatant
I am currently a student of stage combat through Art of Combat, learning basic skills in knife, small sword, broad sword, quarter staff, and unarmed combat from trained stage and screen combatants and professional fight directors including Doc John Lennox, Jared Kirby, Bryce Bermingham, and Kyle Rowling. While currently a beginner, this summer I will move into the "on-track" phase of the program, with the desire to improve my skills not only as a combatant, but as a potential fight captain and eventually an assistant fight director.