Playwright, organizational consultant, journalist.
Hi!
Thanks for visiting!
I’m excited to share my work with you. Here you’ll find recent work by me as a playwright, journalist, editor and creative human. This is also where you can learn more about what I can do for organizations, in terms of grant writing, communications, organizational development, team-building, all that fun stuff.
Enjoy!
— Rachael (She/Her/Hers)
Rachael Carnes
1050 West 17th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402 541-221-5792
EDUCATION
Reed College Bachelor of Arts 1993
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Ambassador, Dramatists Guild of America
Member, League of Professional Women in Theatre
FESTIVAL & WRITER’S CONFERENCE INVITATIONS
2018 William Inge Theatre Festival, 2018 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Fumblewinter)
2018 Midwestern Dramatist Center Annual Conference, 2018 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Partner Of —)
2019 Midwestern Dramatist Center Annual Conference, 2019 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Egg in Spoon)
2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2019 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Maintaining a Space Cushion)
2019 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Orlando, FL, 2019 (Partner Of —)
2019 John F. Kennedy Playwriting Intensive (Partner Of —)
2019 Playa at Summer Lake Writer’s Retreat (Partner Of —)
2019 Sewanee Writer’s Conference (Practice House)
2019 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival (Partner Of —)
2020 Mid-America Theatre Conference, (Plays in Progress Series, “First-Tier Pick”, Practice House.)
2020 Great Plains Theatre Conference, (Practice House)
2020 Lighthouse Writer’s Literary Festival Advanced Dramatic Writing Workshop
SELECTED PLAYS – FULL LENGTH
Canopy staged reading — WriteON Festival, Cambridge U.K., 2019
Canopy staged reading — Parsons Nose Theatre Women’s Project, first play in the series! 2019
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Relative Theatrics, Laramie, WY, 2019
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Pleasance Theatre, U.K.
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Best Medicine Rep, Washington D.C. 2019
Canopy development workshop and staged reading — Parsons Nose, 2020
Practice House development — Semi-Finalist, Normal Ave Productions, NYC, 2019
Practice House staged reading — Alternate, Comparative Drama Conference, 2020
Practice House staged reading — Semi-finalist, Seven Devil’s Festival, 2019
Practice House staged reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2019
Practice House workshop — Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Sewanee, TN, 2019
Practice House workshop — Roly Poly Productions, NYC, 2019
Practice House award — Semi-finalist, New Dramatists Princess Grace Award, 2019
Practice House workshop — Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2020
Practice House development — Plays in Progress Series, Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2020
Practice House workshop and staged reading — Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2020
The Plague staged reading — LadyFest at the Tank, NYC, 2019
Girl Vs. Troll production — Dalton Middle School, Dalton, Georgia, 2019
At Winter’s Edge production — Commissioned by the Very Little Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Windberry Creek staged reading — Parsons Nose Theatre Women’s Project, Pasadena, CA, 2019
Windberry Creek workshop and reading — Akropolis Performance Lab, Seattle, WA, 2020
Windberry Creek workshop and staged reading — Theatre 33, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 2020
Windberry Creek workshop and staged reading — Theatre Vertigo, Portland, OR, 2020
Windberry Creek semifinalist, staged reading — Garry Marshall Theatre New Play Workshop, 2020
Windberry Creek semifinalist, production — American Association of Community Theatres, 2020
Binders production — Dean Productions, Los Angeles, 2020
Binders workshop and reading — Panglossian Productions, Williamsburg, VA, 2020
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Women’s Playwriting Initiative Award, Ivoryton Playhouse, Ivoryton CT, 2019, for Partner Of —
Best Play, Between Us Productions Take Ten Festival, NYC, for Partner Of — 2019
Semi-finalist, New Dramatists Princess Grace Award, for Practice House, 2019
Semi-Finalist, PlayMakers Repertory International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Competition, for Yoncalla, 2020
Oregon Literary Fellowship, recipient, 2020
Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant, recipient, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Partner Of — The Coachella Review, University of CA Riverside,
2018
Egg in Spoon The Coachella Review, University of CA Riverside, 2019
Waterfall Cascadia Rising Review, 2019
Utøya Some Scripts Literary Magazine, 2019
Curbed and
Ice Front The Silk Road Review, 2020
Contrapposto Feels Blind Literary, 2020
Wabi Sabi Featured in collection https://www.garygarrison.com/younger-ten-plays
What a Memory Looks Like Some Scripts Literary Magazine, 2020 and The Extinction Rebellion, 2020
SYZYGY The Stonecoast Review, 2020
RECENT PRESS
Theatre Trip Interview: https://www.theatretrip.com/rachael-carnes/
Adam Szymkowicz Interview: http://aszym.blogspot.com/2019/02/i-interview-playwrights-part-1030.html
Eugene Weekly Feature: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2019/09/12/all-the-worlds-her-stage/
The Dramatist Feature: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/thedramatist-current-issue
FESTIVAL READER
The Blank Theatre Living Room Series, 2019
The American Association for Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Series, 2020
The Athena Project, New Play Development Series, 2020
SELECTED PLAYS – SHORT / ONE ACTS
Partner Of —
reading — Mainstage West, Sebastopol, CA, 2018
reading — Midwestern Dramatists Center’s Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2018
production — MOJOAA Performing Arts Center, Raleigh, NC, 2018
publication — Coachella Review, University of California, Riverside, 2018
development and reading— Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights’ Initiative, Ivoryton, CT, 2019
production — Rover Dramawerks, Plano, TX, 2019
production — Between Us Productions, NYC, 2019
development — Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Orlando, FL, 2019
finalist — Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
production — Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, NYC, 2019
production — Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
reading — Women Playwrights International Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2021
Sh*t Train
production — Fitzroy House, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Funhouse Anthology, Seattle, WA, 2018
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Brighton, U.K., 2018
production — Founding Fall Theatre, London, U.K., 2019
Ill Comes Forth
production — Poor Monsters, St. Louis, MO, 2018
production — Theatre KDC, London, U.K., 2018
Egg in Spoon
production — Saw it Here First Productions, London, U.K., 2019
staged reading — Midwestern Dramatist Center Conference, 2019
production — T. Schreiber Studios, Schreiber Shorts, NYC, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR 2020
production — University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2020
Underfur (co-written with my son Hugh!)
production — Founding Fall Theatre, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019
In Training
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Cuckoo Bang, London, U.K., 2018
production — Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Secret Theatre, NYC, 2019
production — The Tank, NYC, 2019
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019
podcast — Panglossian Productions Best of All Possible Podcasts, 2020
Inertia
production — Weathervane Theatre, Akron, OH, 2018 (Winner, cast favorite: best play.)
production — Cuckoo Bang, London, U.K., 2018
production — 2Cents Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
production — Seoul Players 10-Minute Play Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2019
production — New Ambassadors, NYC, 2020
production — Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, 2020
production — University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2020
Crabs(Dot)Com
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2018
production — Little Black Dress INK’s Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Festival, 2019
production — Fights Like a Girl Festival, Manchester, U.K., 2019
Newtown/Lantana
production — Waltzing Mechanics, Chicago, IL, 2018
reading — University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2018
reading — Focal Theatre Lab, Ames, IA, 2018
reading — Nu Sass, Washington D.C., 2018
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2018
reading — Luna Stage, West Orange New Jersey, 2018
reading — Palace Theater, Chattanooga, TN, 2018
reading — Commonwealth Theater Center, Louisville, KY, 2019
reading — Corridor Theater, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2018
reading — Tomorrow’s Theatre Tonight, Prescott, AZ, 2018
reading — Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis, 2018
reading — Steel River Playhouse, Pottstown, PA, 2018
reading — Mystic Vision Players, Linden, NJ, 2019
Fairview Training
workshop — Semi-finalist, The Bechdel Group, NYC, 2018
Two Bunnies Talking
reading — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2018
reading — Washburne University, Topeka, KS, 2018
production — Emerge Theatre Company, Allentown, PA, 2018
production — Finalist, City Lights Festival, Los Angeles, 2020
Complimentary Wi-Fi
production – Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2017
production — Center for the Arts Bonita Springs, Bonita Spring FL, 2020
Four-Points
production — Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 2018
Canopy (one-minute)
production — Gi60UK, Leeds, U.K., 201
Permission
production — Clutch Productions, at Primary Stages, NYC, 2018
workshop — Putney Theatre Company, London, U.K., 2019
production — Itinerant Theatre Company, Lake Charles, LA, 2019
production — Flush Ink Productions, Ontario, Canada, 2019
production — International Human Rights Festival, NYC, 2019
production — The Secret Theatre, NYC, 2020
Ice Front
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2018
production — Between Us Productions’ Take Ten Festival, NYC, 2018
Maintaining A Space Cushion
reading — Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, OH, 2019
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2019
production — University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2020
Waterfall
production — Spokane Stage Left Theatre, Spokane, WA, 2019
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
production — The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Festival, NYC, 2019 & 2020
Everybody Hates Mariah Carey
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Director’s Cut Theatre, London, U.K., 2018
production — Festive Scratch Night in aid of Mind, Cardiff, Wales, 2019
production — Creative UnDisposables, London, U.K., 2019
reading — The PlayGround Experiment, NYC, 2019
production — Clemson University, 2020
production — Rapture Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, 2020
Incredibly Cute
production — Cone Man Running Productions, Houston, TX, 2019
Join the Movement
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2019
Cornucopia
reading — Finalist, Theatre for All, Queens Theatre, NYC, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Curbed
production — Panglossian Productions, Williamsburg, VA, 2019
production — The Bridge, Tempe, AZ, 2019
Helper
production —The Tank, NYC, 2019
Salad Days
production — Arizona Theatre Matters, Phoenix, AZ, 2020
Brothers
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
reading — The Focal Theatre, Ames, IA, 2019
production — Gi60 2019, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Utøya
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
Subduction Zone
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
A Safe Place
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Forcefully Denied
production — Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 and 2020
Echolocation
production — Voices of the Earth Festival, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN, 2019
production — Spokane Stage Left, Spokane, WA, 2020
The Pact
finalist — Eden Prairie Players Collection of One Acts, Eden Prairie, MN, 2019
Ray’s Candy Store
production — Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, 2019
Last Exit
production — Funhouse Anthology V, Annex Theatre, Seattle, WA, 2019
The Kitchen
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Brighton, U.K. 2019
Lady Cops
production — Violet Surprise: Femslash Fest at Otherworld Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2019
Contrapposto
production — Creative Undisposables, at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London, U.K. 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Syzygy
staged reading — Drunken Owl Theatre, Seattle, WA, 2019
The Appointment
production — North Mount Hermon School, Gill, MA, 2019
production — Players Theatre, Duluth, MN, 2020
Me Direct
production — Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA, 2019
staged reading — Utah Theatre Blogger’s Association, Salt Lake City, UT, 2020
Ripple
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
The Upping
staged reading — Clutch Production’s EmpowHER Series at Primary Stages, NYC, 2019
The Invention of Pickleball
production — Eden Prairie Players, Eden Prairie, MN, 2020
A Collective Grouping of Animals
production — Saw it Here First Productions, London, 2020
Wabi Sabi
production — The Q Collective, St. Louis, 2020
reading — Almost Adults, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
Creative Little Garden
staged reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2020
Where Do I Find Hope?
staged reading — We the People Theatre Action at Sacred Fools, Los Angeles, 2020
Catalyst
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2020
Eleven
production — Cascades Theatre Company, Bend, OR, 2020
Soup
production — We the People at Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
production — Connective Theatre Company, Chicago, IL, 2020
production — Center Stage, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2020
production — Project Y Theatre, NYC, 2020
WonderWomen
production — Violet Surprise, Chicago, 2020
The Ballad of the Instacart Driver
production — Theatre is the Cure, San Diego, 2020
Sex & Violence
reading — New Ambassadors Corp, NYC, 2020
An Abundance of Caution, A Play for Videoconference
reading — Creede Repertory Theatre, Creed, CO, 2020
reading — ChewBoy Productions, London, 2020
reading — Josef Weinberger plays, London, 2020
production — On and Off Theatre Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 2020
production — The Merry Beggars, London, 2020
And the Crafters Made Masks Because There Were None
production — Barefoot Theatre Company, NYC, 2020
Confluence
production — Bag & Baggage Productions, Portland, OR, 2020
Intermolecular Forces
production — Vintage Soul Productions, New Haven, CT, 2020
production — Madison College, Madison, WI, 2020
production — We the People Theatre Action, 2020
production — Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
production — Metal Rabbit Productions, London, 2020
Everyday Aviation
production — Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO, 2020
production — Operation Shadowbox, Eugene, OR, 2020
production — Metal Rabbit, London, 2020
production — Around the Globe in 80 Plays, London, 2020
production — Theatre Three, Dallas, TX, 2020
Crossing the Amur
production — University of Massachusetts, 2020
production — Very Little Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2020
RECENT AND CONTINUING COLLABORATIONS
Playwrights Say Never Again to School Shootings — And CodeRed#FAITH, Editor and Producer of nationwide project, 2018 — present. More information, with link to project, see article I wrote for HowlRound: http://howlround.com/playwrights-say-neveragain#disqus_thread
Protest Plays Project: Two Bunnies Talking — included in Get Out the Vote Plays http://howlround.com/getting-out-the-vote-theatres-and-civic-responsibility and a second Protest Plays Project: Shipwreck, included in Theatre Action: Immigration Plays http://www.protestplays.org/theatreactionimmigration/
36-Hour Play Project, Operation Shadowbox — Playwright, 2018
https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2018/08/23/time-enough-to-play/
Clutch Productions, NYC, 2019-2020 Full Circle Member, a year-long cycle of exclusive shared sessions focused on advanced work and collective mentorship.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Master class series with playwright Alice Tuan, Playwright’s Center, 2017. Mentorship with playwright Tammy Ryan, Dramatists Guild Institute, 2017. Craft workshops through Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild Institute, the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, the Inge Festival, the Midwestern Dramatist Center, the Mid-American Theatre Conference the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, with Donna Hoke, Stephen Kaplan, Gary Garrison, Mark Bly, Chisa Hutchison, Gregg Henry, Diana Burbano, Haygen-Brice Walker, Maya Lee Yang, E.M. Lewis, Carlyle Brown, Beaufield Berry, Caleen Sinette Jennings, Sean Grennan, Evan Handler, Darren Cannady, Lisa Langford, Lilliana Padilla, Dan O’Brien, Kenneth Lin, Peter Parnell.
Rachael Carnes (She/Her)
1050 West 17th Ave, Eugene, OR 97402 541-221-5792 carnes.rachael@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Reed College Bachelor of Arts 1993
Oregon Literary Fellowship, recipient, 2020
FESTIVAL & WRITER’S CONFERENCE INVITATIONS
2018 William Inge Theatre Festival, 2018 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Fumblewinter)
2018 Midwestern Dramatist Center Annual Conference, 2018 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Partner Of —)
2019 Midwestern Dramatist Center Annual Conference, 2019 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Egg in Spoon)
2019 Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2019 (“First-Tier Pick” Finalist, Maintaining a Space Cushion)
2019 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Orlando, FL, 2019 (Partner Of —)
2019 John F. Kennedy Playwriting Intensive (Partner Of —)
2019 Playa at Summer Lake Writer’s Retreat (Partner Of —)
2019 Sewanee Writer’s Conference (Practice House)
2019 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival (Partner Of —)
2020 Mid-America Theatre Conference, (Plays in Progress Series, “First-Tier Pick”, Practice House.)
2020 Great Plains Theatre Conference, (Practice House)
2020 Lighthouse Writer’s Literary Festival Advanced Dramatic Writing Workshop
SELECTED PLAYS – FULL LENGTH
Canopy shortlisted for production — WriteON Festival, Cambridge U.K., 2019
Canopy staged reading — WriteON Festival, Cambridge U.K., 2019
Canopy staged reading — Parsons Nose Theatre Women’s Project, first play in the series! 2019
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Relative Theatrics, Laramie, WY, 2019
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Pleasance Theatre, U.K.
Canopy staged reading — Semi-finalist, Best Medicine Rep, Washington D.C. 2019
Practice House development — Semi-Finalist, Normal Ave Productions, NYC, 2019
Practice House staged reading — Alternate, Comparative Drama Conference, 2020
Practice House staged reading — Semi-finalist, Seven Devil’s Festival, 2019
Practice House staged reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2019
Practice House workshop — Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Sewanee, TN, 2019
Practice House workshop — Roly Poly Productions, NYC, 2019
Practice House award — Semi-finalist, New Dramatists Princess Grace Award, 2019
Practice House workshop — Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2020
Practice House development — Plays in Progress Series, Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2020
Practice House workshop and staged reading — Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2020
The Plague staged reading — LadyFest at the Tank, NYC, 2019
Girl Vs. Troll production — Dalton Middle School, Dalton, Georgia, 2019
At Winter’s Edge production — Commissioned by the Very Little Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Windberry Creek staged reading — Parsons Nose Theatre Women’s Project, Pasadena, CA, 2019
Windberry Creek workshop — Akropolis Performance Lab, Seattle, WA, 2020
Windberry Creek workshop and staged reading — Theatre 33, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 2020
Binders production — Dean Productions, Los Angeles, 2020
Yoncalla award — Semi-Finalist, International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Prize, 2020
AWARDS
Women’s Playwriting Initiative Award, Ivoryton Playhouse, Ivoryton CT, 2019, for Partner Of —
Best Play, Between Us Productions Take Ten Festival, NYC, for Partner Of — 2019
Semi-finalist, New Dramatists Princess Grace Award, for Practice House, 2019
Semi-Finalist, PlayMakers Repertory International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Competition, for Yoncalla, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
Partner Of — The Coachella Review, University of CA Riverside, 2018
Egg in Spoon The Coachella Review, University of CA Riverside, 2019
Waterfall Cascadia Rising Review, 2019
Utøya Some Scripts Literary Magazine, 2019
Curbed and
Ice Front The Silk Road Review, 2020
Contrapposto Feels Blind Literary, 2020
Wabi Sabi Featured in collection https://www.garygarrison.com/younger-ten-plays
What a Memory Looks Like Some Scripts Literary Magazine, 2020
RECENT PRESS
Theatre Trip Interview: https://www.theatretrip.com/rachael-carnes/
Adam Szymkowicz Interview: http://aszym.blogspot.com/2019/02/i-interview-playwrights-part-1030.html
Eugene Weekly Feature: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2019/09/12/all-the-worlds-her-stage/
The Dramatist Feature: https://www.dramatistsguild.com/thedramatist-current-issue
FESTIVAL READER
The Blank Theatre Living Room Series, 2019
The American Association for Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Series, 2020
The Athena Project, New Play Development Series, 2020
SELECTED PLAYS – SHORT / ONE ACTS
Sh*t Train
production — Fitzroy House, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Funhouse Anthology, Seattle, WA, 2018
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Brighton, U.K., 2018
production — Founding Fall Theatre, London, U.K., 2019
Partner Of —
reading — Mainstage West, Sebastopol, CA, 2018
reading — Midwestern Dramatists Center’s Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2018
production — MOJOAA Performing Arts Center, Raleigh, NC, 2018
publication — Coachella Review, University of California, Riverside, 2018
development and reading— Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights’ Initiative, Ivoryton, CT, 2019
production — Rover Dramawerks, Plano, TX, 2019
production — Between Us Productions, NYC, 2019
development — Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Orlando, FL, 2019
finalist — Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
production — Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, NYC, 2019
production — Towne Street Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Ill Comes Forth
production — Poor Monsters, St. Louis, MO, 2018
production — Theatre KDC, London, U.K., 2018
Egg in Spoon
production — Saw it Here First Productions, London, U.K., 2019
staged reading — Midwestern Dramatist Center Conference, 2019
production — T. Schreiber Studios, Schreiber Shorts, NYC, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR 2020
Underfur (co-written with my son Hugh!)
production — Founding Fall Theatre, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019
In Training
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Cuckoo Bang, London, U.K., 2018
production — Manhattan Repertory Theatre, NYC, 2018
production — Secret Theatre, NYC, 2019
production — The Tank, NYC, 2019
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019
podcast — Panglossian Productions Best of All Possible Podcasts, 2020
Inertia
production — Weathervane Theatre, Akron, OH, 2018 (Winner, cast favorite: best play.)
production — Cuckoo Bang, London, U.K., 2018
production — 2Cents Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
production — Seoul Players 10-Minute Play Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2019
production — New Ambassadors, NYC, 2020
production — Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, WA, 2020
Fairview Training
workshop — Semi-finalist, The Bechdel Group, NYC, 2018
Crabs(Dot)Com
production — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2018
production — Little Black Dress INK’s Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Festival, 2019
production — Fights Like a Girl Festival, Manchester, U.K., 2019
Newtown/Lantana
production — Waltzing Mechanics, Chicago, IL, 2018
reading — University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 2018
reading — Focal Theatre Lab, Ames, IA, 2018
reading — Nu Sass, Washington D.C., 2018
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2018
reading — Luna Stage, West Orange New Jersey, 2018
reading — Palace Theater, Chattanooga, TN, 2018
reading — Commonwealth Theater Center, Louisville, KY, 2019
reading — Corridor Theater, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2018
reading — Tomorrow’s Theatre Tonight, Prescott, AZ, 2018
reading — Phoenix Theater, Minneapolis, 2018
reading — Steel River Playhouse, Pottstown, PA, 2018
reading — Mystic Vision Players, Linden, NJ, 2019
Two Bunnies Talking
reading — Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2018
reading — Washburne University, Topeka, KS, 2018
production — Emerge Theatre Company, Allentown, PA, 2018
production — Finalist, City Lights Festival, Los Angeles, 2020
Complimentary Wi-Fi
production – Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2017
production — Center for the Arts Bonita Springs, Bonita Spring FL, 2020
Four-Points
production — Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 2018
Canopy (one-minute)
production — Gi60UK, Leeds, U.K., 201
Permission
production — Clutch Productions, at Primary Stages, NYC, 2018
workshop — Putney Theatre Company, London, U.K., 2019
production — Itinerant Theatre Company, Lake Charles, LA, 2019
production — Flush Ink Productions, Ontario, Canada, 2019
production — International Human Rights Festival, NYC, 2019
production — The Secret Theatre, NYC, 2020
Ice Front
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2018
production — Between Us Productions’ Take Ten Festival, NYC, 2018
Maintaining A Space Cushion
reading — Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, OH, 2019
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2019
Waterfall
production — Spokane Stage Left Theatre, Spokane, WA, 2019
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
production — The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Festival, NYC, 2019 & 2020
Everybody Hates Mariah Carey
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Sussex, U.K., 2018
production — Director’s Cut Theatre, London, U.K., 2018
production — Festive Scratch Night in aid of Mind, Cardiff, Wales, 2019
production — Creative UnDisposables, London, U.K., 2019
reading — The PlayGround Experiment, NYC, 2019
production — Clemson University, 2020
production — Rapture Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, 2020
Incredibly Cute
production — Cone Man Running Productions, Houston, TX, 2019
Join the Movement
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 2019
Cornucopia
reading — Finalist, Theatre for All, Queens Theatre, NYC, 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Curbed
production — Panglossian Productions, Williamsburg, VA, 2019
production — The Bridge, Tempe, AZ, 2019
Helper
production —The Tank, NYC, 2019
Salad Days
production — Arizona Theatre Matters, Phoenix, AZ, 2020
Brothers
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
reading — The Focal Theatre, Ames, IA, 2019
production — Gi60 2019, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Utøya
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
Subduction Zone
reading — Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
A Safe Place
reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Forcefully Denied
production — Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 and 2020
Echolocation
production — Voices of the Earth Festival, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN, 2019
production — Spokane Stage Left, Spokane, WA, 2020
The Pact
finalist — Eden Prairie Players Collection of One Acts, Eden Prairie, MN, 2019
Ray’s Candy Store
production — Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, 2019
Last Exit
production — Funhouse Anthology V, Annex Theatre, Seattle, WA, 2019
The Kitchen
production — Cast Iron Theatre, Brighton, U.K. 2019
Lady Cops
production — Violet Surprise: Femslash Fest at Otherworld Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2019
Contrapposto
production — Creative Undisposables, at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London, U.K. 2019
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
Syzygy
staged reading — Drunken Owl Theatre, Seattle, WA, 2019
The Appointment
production — North Mount Hermon School, Gill, MA, 2019
production — Players Theatre, Duluth, MN, 2020
Me Direct
production — Spokane Community College, Spokane, WA, 2019
staged reading — Utah Theatre Blogger’s Association, Salt Lake City, UT, 2020
Ripple
production — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2019
The Upping
staged reading — Clutch Production’s EmpowHER Series at Primary Stages, NYC, 2019
The Invention of Pickleball
production — Eden Prairie Players, Eden Prairie, MN, 2020
A Collective Grouping of Animals
production — Saw it Here First Productions, London, 2020
Wabi Sabi
production — The Q Collective, St. Louis, 2020
Creative Little Garden
staged reading — Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, OR, 2020
Where Do I Find Hope?
staged reading — We the People Theatre Action at Sacred Fools, Los Angeles, 2020
Catalyst
production — Nylon Fusion Theatre, NYC, 2020
Eleven
production — Cascades Theatre Company, Bend, OR, 2020
Soup
production — We the People at Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
production — Connective Theatre Company, Chicago, IL, 2020
An Abundance of Caution, A Play for Videoconference
reading — Creede Repertory Theatre, Creed, CO, 2020
reading — ChewBoy Productions, London, 2020
reading — Josef Weinberger plays, London, 2020
production — On and Off Theatre Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 2020
WonderWomen
production — Violet Surprise, Chicago, 2020
The Ballad of the Instacart Driver
production — Theatre is the Cure, San Diego, 2020
And the Crafters Made Masks Because There Were None
production — Barefoot Theatre Company, NYC, 2020
Confluence
production — Bag & Baggage Productions, Portland, OR, 2020
Zinc
production — Vintage Soul Productions, New Haven, CT, 2020
Kitchen Table
production — Vintage Soul Productions, New Haven, CT, 2020
Wind
production — Vintage Soul Productions, New Haven, CT, 2020
Everyday Aviation
production — Center for Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO, 2020
RECENT AND CONTINUING COLLABORATIONS
Playwrights Say Never Again to School Shootings — Editor and Producer of nationwide project, 2018 — present.
More information, with link to project, see article I wrote for HowlRound: http://howlround.com/playwrights-say-neveragain#disqus_thread
Protest Plays Project: Two Bunnies Talking — included in Get Out the Vote Plays http://howlround.com/getting-out-the-vote-theatres-and-civic-responsibility and a second Protest Plays Project: Shipwreck, included in Theatre Action: Immigration Plays http://www.protestplays.org/theatreactionimmigration/
36-Hour Play Project, Operation Shadowbox — Playwright, 2018
https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2018/08/23/time-enough-to-play/
Funhouse Anthology, 2019, core writer, Seattle, WA
Clutch Productions, NYC, 2019-2020 Full Circle Member, a year-long cycle of exclusive shared sessions focused on advanced work and collective mentorship.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Master class series with playwright Alice Tuan, Playwright’s Center, 2017. Mentorship with playwright Tammy Ryan, Dramatists Guild Institute, 2017. Craft workshops through Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild Institute, the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, the Inge Festival, the Midwestern Dramatist Center, the Mid-American Theatre Conference the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, with Donna Hoke, Stephen Kaplan, Gary Garrison, Mark Bly, Chisa Hutchison, Gregg Henry, Diana Burbano, Haygen-Brice Walker, Maya Lee Yang, E.M. Lewis, Carlyle Brown, Beaufield Berry, Caleen Sinette Jennings, Sean Grennan, Evan Handler, Darren Cannady, Lisa Langford, Lilliana Padilla, Dan O’Brien, Kenneth Lin.
To follow my playwriting, please find me on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Rachael-Carnes-playwright
But wait — There’s more!
Rachael also writes about the arts, nonprofits, people and places!
Check out some recent long-form essays:
Rachael (She/Her/Hers) is available for project-based supports in many areas of nonprofit engagement, including board, staff and volunteer development, fiscal responsibility and governance, grant writing and administration, communications and program implementation.
She is available as a resource by phone, video conference or in-person, for minimal commitments, to large-scale projects and programs, as available.
Rachael brings her zest for creativity and spark of fun to all proceedings, putting stakeholders at ease, so we can get down to do good work.
Please reach out to share more about your organization’s needs.
Summary
For two decades, Rachael has been a tireless champion for underserved communities. As a nonprofit founder, director and board leader, she has seeded and sustained innovative arts programming, through collaborative organizational partnerships and dynamite ongoing grant proposals. As a professional writer with 20 years’ experience, she’s developed rapport through more than a 1,000 engaging features and reviews. As an educator, she’s opened the door to dance, theater and music to those who wouldn’t otherwise have access, because she believes arts and culture belong to everyone. Rachael wants this to be a more beautiful world.
Experience
Organizational Development and Nonprofit Consulting
Production Coordinator (Part-Time) with the City of Eugene Cultural Services Department, overseeing Volunteer Coordination, serving as a liaison to Public Art Management, organizing Event Planning, advising Marketing, Web Development and Social Media, as well as tracking long-range program design, evaluation and reporting. Also serving as a docent and visitor guide (Part-Time) for the Adventure Children’s Museum.
Volunteer work includes the Art Gives Hope Task Force for ShelterCare, building the Business Sponsorship program for the HIV Alliance, developing Communication tools for Food for Lane Co., including writing their newsletter features, as well as ongoing volunteering for local arts organizations and civic groups, such as Roosevelt Middle School, the Oregon Children’s Choir, Rose Children’s Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre and 100 Women Who Care. Former member, City of Eugene Cultural Services Advisory Committee.
Recent client work includes: The Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, an organization serving 27 tribes, hired me to research, analyze, interpret and craft current grant funding requirements with their organization’s Childcare Development Fund policies and procedures.
ArtCore Project Coordinator, Inflexion 2017 – 2018
Rachael served as the liaison among the many and varied partners — arts organizations, teaching artists, school administrators, classroom teachers, interns, volunteers and students — in this dynamic co-located, co-organizational, collaborative federally-funded grant project that brings arts integration practices into five local Middle and High Schools. Rachael is responsible for developing and implementing special events, such as teacher-training institutes and ongoing professional development opportunities for the ArtCore team. She has contributed her skills in grants administration to ArtCore’s proposal development, as the lead grant writer on a multi-million-dollar proposal to the National Science Foundation in Fall 2017. She was tasked with developing ArtCore’s marketing strategies as well as designing the final phase of the project’s Case Research Study. Rachael has implemented meaningful new structures to the ArtCore team, helping to build the effort’s capacity for functional shared leadership and facilitation. This was a grant-funded position.
Nonprofit Founder and Leader 1999-2017
Director. She also worked in Public Relations and Marketing and coordinated an ongoing festival of new performance.
Contributing Writer and Editor 1996-Present
Residencies and staff trainings in Inclusive Educational Practices:
Eugene District 4j: Adams Elementary, Arts and Technology Academy, Chavez Elementary School, Churchill High School
Edgewood Elementary, Ridgeline Montessori, Charlemagne Elementary. Springfield Public Schools: Thurston High School,
Springfield High School, Mount Vernon Elementary, Douglas Gardens Elementary, Brattain Elementary, Moffett Elementary, Walterville School. Bethel Public Schools: Willamette High School, Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, FL, Hood River School District, Astoria School District, Medford High School Teen Parent Programs, Creswell School District, Elmira High School
Teacher-Trainings at conferences, symposiums or professional development opportunities, in best practices for inclusion:
LCC’s Arts Works for Education, LCC Course on Arts Integration, Boys and Girls Club of Emerald Valley, Dance and the Child International, The Hague, The Netherlands, EC Cares, University of Oregon Dept. of Education, Lane Community College Dept. of Education and Dance, Eugene Public Library, Head Start of Oregon, City of Eugene Dept. of Recreation, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lane Arts Council, Lane County Health and Human Services, Lane County Public Health, Lane Family Connects, Linn-Benton Family Connects, Little French School, National Institute of Recreation Inclusion, Oregon Association for the Education of Young Children, Oregon Association of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Music Educators Association, Relief Nursery of Eugene/Springfield, Right Brain Initiative, Smiling Child Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, Springfield Public Library, Suzuki Strings Association
Please note: Most of the clients listed above represent long, multi-year relationships.
I first began working with playwright John Minigan on a shared project — #CodeRedPlaywrights — Responding to gun violence. We’ve shared various playbills, and he’s one of those readers I trust with my ugliest, roughest, wartiest drafts of new work. John feels like a close friend, even though… We’ve never had the opportunity to meet …
Rachael Carnes: Hi, Aaron! Last time we saw each other was at the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival in 2019. That feels like two million years ago. So, what inspires your creativity? Aaron Leventman: Human behavior and personality, strong identification with a certain person or place, and stories of every day heroism. RC: Tell me about …
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Hi Erica! What inspires your creativity? One of the ways I get inspiration is by going to museums. I love the idea that beautiful objects are stored and cared for so we can look at them. I wrote an article about how I love to walk through museums, letting myself absorb the atmosphere, maybe reading …
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Rachael Carnes (She/Her/Hers)
Please reach me at carnes(dot)rachael(at)gmail.com