Rachel Leighson is a bicoastal script writer and performer. Writing credits include: Little Egg, Big World (honorary mention for the 2022 Jane Chambers award in feminist playwriting/second rounder Austin Film Fest), Blood on My Mother's Apron (nominated for nine 2021 Broadway World awards, including best new play), The Bender Girls (Coverfly Red List for top rated Westerns), The Scarcity of Illness (The Skeleton Rep(resents) Theatre Co., Moses Never Had to Make a Brisket (Clockhouse Literary Journal), Dybbuks Don’t Know What Pills Are (Jewish Plays Project), La Morte Finale (StageLeft Theatre), and Clean Slate. Rachel has written commissions for Cultivate Theater Project and Feminist Fairytales Radio Plays and also served as a resident playwright with PlayGround-NY.
As an actor, Rachel has been seen Off Broadway in The Christians (Playwrights Horizons), Lili Marlene (St. Luke's Theater), and Before a League (Actors Temple Theater) as well as on multiple television shows and regional theater stages.
In all of her creative work, Rachel strives to highlight gray morality and female-centered voices throughout history. She hopes to find humor in horror and lessons in frivolity! When she’s not writing or acting, Rachel can be found snuggling her three cats, hanging with her awesome husband, and overspending at Barnes & Noble.
