“Rachel Sussman - 'the eternal connector of all good people'..." - The New York Times
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RACHEL SUSSMAN is an award-winning New York-based creative producer committed to cultivating dynamic, inclusive theatrical work through collaboration.
Rachel is a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan as well as The Indigo Theatre Project, a theatre company of passion and purpose dedicated to producing play readings that benefit related non-profit organizations, including Uncommon Women and Others (starring Merritt Wever), Reckless (starring Tina Fey and Michael Shannon for Safe Horizon), and An American Daughter (starring Keri Russell and Hugh Dancy for She Should Run).
From 2015-2018, she served as the Producing Artistic Director for the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) where she had the opportunity to develop a new program focused on commissioning new musical works by artists such as Diana Oh, Aya Aziz, Ty Defoe and Tidtaya Sinutoke, and Ryan Scott Oliver and Nessie Nankivell. Rachel has also worked with such companies as Second Stage Theatre, 321 Theatrical Management, RKO Stage Productions, Goodspeed Musicals' Mercer Colony, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Lincoln Center's American Songbook, The Tony Awards, iEmmys, Joe Iconis & Family and CREATE-Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. Independent producing credits include the Obie award-winning production of The Woodsman (New World Stages/59E59), Don't You F**king Say a Word (59E59), The Rug Dealer (Women's Project Pipeline Festival), The Sweetest Life (New Victory), and Talk to me about Shame (FringeNYC, Overall Excellence Award). Current Projects: What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre) and Eh Dah? Questions for my Father (Next Door @ NYTW). In development: a new musical about the American women's suffrage movement by Shaina Taub.
With a passion for creating space at the intersection of theatre and social justice, she has produced and participated in theatrical events supporting organizations such as Donor Direct Action, The Global Poverty Project, Covenant House International, TDF Open Doors, Safe Horizon, The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, She Should Run, Everytown, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund and Shine MSD, and most recently, March For Our Lives. She is a proud member of the Covenant House Sleep Out: Stage and Screen Executive Committee.
A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel is the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute (Fred Vogel Scholarship) and a University Honors Scholar alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Rachel is a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan as well as The Indigo Theatre Project, a theatre company of passion and purpose dedicated to producing play readings that benefit related non-profit organizations, including Uncommon Women and Others (starring Merritt Wever), Reckless (starring Tina Fey and Michael Shannon for Safe Horizon), and An American Daughter (starring Keri Russell and Hugh Dancy for She Should Run).
From 2015-2018, she served as the Producing Artistic Director for the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) where she had the opportunity to develop a new program focused on commissioning new musical works by artists such as Diana Oh, Aya Aziz, Ty Defoe and Tidtaya Sinutoke, and Ryan Scott Oliver and Nessie Nankivell. Rachel has also worked with such companies as Second Stage Theatre, 321 Theatrical Management, RKO Stage Productions, Goodspeed Musicals' Mercer Colony, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Lincoln Center's American Songbook, The Tony Awards, iEmmys, Joe Iconis & Family and CREATE-Ireland in Dublin, Ireland. Independent producing credits include the Obie award-winning production of The Woodsman (New World Stages/59E59), Don't You F**king Say a Word (59E59), The Rug Dealer (Women's Project Pipeline Festival), The Sweetest Life (New Victory), and Talk to me about Shame (FringeNYC, Overall Excellence Award). Current Projects: What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre) and Eh Dah? Questions for my Father (Next Door @ NYTW). In development: a new musical about the American women's suffrage movement by Shaina Taub.
With a passion for creating space at the intersection of theatre and social justice, she has produced and participated in theatrical events supporting organizations such as Donor Direct Action, The Global Poverty Project, Covenant House International, TDF Open Doors, Safe Horizon, The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, She Should Run, Everytown, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Victims Fund and Shine MSD, and most recently, March For Our Lives. She is a proud member of the Covenant House Sleep Out: Stage and Screen Executive Committee.
A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel is the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute (Fred Vogel Scholarship) and a University Honors Scholar alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.