Join SDCF for a one on one conversation with Rachel Chavkin on Friday Jan 24 in New York City. This conversation will focus on Rachel’s expansive career as an artist and approach to her craft. There will be a focus on her work as founding artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective the TEAM and how her work with the ensemble interacts and influences her work as a freelancer in the non-profit and commercial spaces. A short Q & A will follow. This interview will be conducted by Annie Tippe. A video will be shared at a later date.

Bio: RACHEL CHAVKIN is a director, sometime writer and founding artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective, the TEAM (www.theteamplays.org) whose work has been seen all over NY, the U.S., and internationally, and whose consensus-driven writing process was the subject of a feature length documentary. She won the 2019 Tony Award for her work on Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (Broadway, NYTW, National Theatre, London). She is a three-time Obie Winner, and received Tony and Lortel nominations, and a Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). Select projects: Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Broadway), the TEAM’s Mission Drift (National Theatre), Arthur Miller’s American Clock ( Old Vic), the TEAM’s RoosevElvis (Royal Court), Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (2ST, 1st play by a known Native American woman on Broadway), Lilianna Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself—co-directed with Padilla and Steph Paul (NYTW), Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour), and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac, Heather Christian, the Bengsons, and Manchester-based writer/performer Chris Thorpe. Her first short film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity.

Rachel’s headshot photo credit: Erik Tanner