RACHEL LEIGHSON
Performer. Writer. AEA/DG/SAFD. NYC/LA.
CURRENT:
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.
Licensing for Rachel's play, "Little Egg, Big World", acquired by Uproar Theatrics!
RECENT:
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.
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.
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Performance Agent –
Firestarter Entertainment
521 5th Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10175
Agent: Karen Michaels
Booking agent: Tiera Ashley
213-531-0547 x 707