Rachel Bowditch Ph.D is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She has a unique international background. Living in Asia and Europe during her formative years has deeply connected her to a theater far removed from American Realism. She is currently living and creating in New York City. Her studies at Skidmore College, the British American Drama Academy (BADA), Dell’ Arte Players Company, Ecole de Jacques Lecoq, Suzuki and Viewpoints with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists rasaboxes have helped her move toward achieving her vision of theater.

Selected directing credits at HERE Performance Art Café, NYC include: A WOMAN’S PLACE, CITY OF BELLS: An Adaptation of the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg, and MASTABA, at the American Living Room Festival 2000; and ARCANA at the Ontological-Hysteric Downstairs Series 2002. She also directs VESSEL’S ongoing interactive urban performance TRANSFIX which has been seen at the New York International Independent Film/Video Festival at Madison Square Garden, NYC; GenArt Summer Arts Festival, the New York International Fringe Al Fresco at Central Park and Grand Central (in collaboration with Timothy Speed Levitch), the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Kitchen, the HOWL Festival 2004, the UnConvention 2004, and Performance Studies International #11 at Brown University. She performed in Richard Schechner’s YOKASTAS at LaMaMa Annex. She recently received her Masters degree in Performance Studies from NYU. She has her PhD from Performance Studies at NYU. She is an Artistic Associate of Schechner's East Coast Artist Exchange and an Associate of RoseLee Goldberg's Performa. She was a Board Member of the Off-Off Broadway Community Dish until 2005. She is currently developing a new work titled The Ophelia Project, a poetic exploration of the works of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf.

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