RACHEL LEIGHSON

Performer. Writer. AEA/DG/SAFD. NYC/LA.

The Latest News!

CURRENT:

Rachel's newest play, Clean Slate, was selected for an intensive workshop with The Larking House. The reading of Clean Slate will be free online on November 9th, 2024.

RECENT:

Licensing for Rachel's play, "Little Egg, Big World", acquired by Uproar Theatrics!

Rachel just added two more female criminals to her TV roster after wrapping A Body in the Basement Season 2 with IG Discovery as Patricia Sloan and Evil Lives Here with HBO Max as Teresa Milbrandt. Both shows will air in 2025.

Rachel wrapped filming for Scamanda with ABC/Hulu as Amanda C. Riley. The docuseries is set to air this fall on Wednesdays after Abbot Elementary!

Rachel wrote a commissioned play with Cultivate Theatre Project as part of its inaugural season!

Rachel's short play, Moses Never Had to Make a Brisket, produced with A Staged Affair in Maine.

Swing/Assistant Director/Fight Director for Henry V with First Maria Ensemble and The Knickerbocker Players

Rachel is proud to now be repped by Firestarter Entertainment for musical theater!

Member of the 2023-2024 playwriting cohort with PlayGround NY!

Commissioned playwright with Feminist Fairytales Podcast, Season 2! Available wherever you get your podcasts.

About

Rachel Leighson is a performer and writer hailing from Los Angeles, CA. She literally fell into performing at the age of seven when she nearly spun off stage during the tornado dance in The Wizard of Oz and never looked back.

She has performed all over the United States (38 states and counting!) and in NYC at Carnegie Hall, Playwrights Horizons, St. Luke's Theatre, and The Actor's Temple Theatre. Her acting and writing passions center around moralistically grey women and finding the nuanced perspective in a piece or character. She believes theatre gives people a safe opportunity to explore uncomfortable truths and grow. More than anything, she hopes to find humor in horror and lessons in frivolity. Perhaps one day, those things will create true magic in this world.