RACHEL LEIGHSON

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

The Latest News!

CURRENT:

Rachel will next hit the stage at The Flea in a staged reading of her play, Clean Slate, as Tal. This reading is co-produced by Rogue Theatre Festival and Cultivate Theatre Project. Tickets can be found here!

Clean Slate synopsis: Two years after a world-wide nuclear war, four souls collide on the road to recovery. Mac is a professor, Cam is a chef, Lez is an actor, and Tal is a scientist. For what any of that means when it all disappears. With jobs to do, pasts to wrestle, ghosts to settle, and a future to secure, the question becomes: if you can't look back, how do you move forward?

RECENT:

Rachel joined the cast of upcoming horror film, Then Came a Rainbow, as Wilma.

Rachel's newest play, Clean Slate, was selected for an intensive workshop with The Larking House.

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

Rachel 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.

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.