Rachael Carnes
Rachael received a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowship, a 2021 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Advanced Dramatic Writing Fellowship, and has had more than 250 readings, development workshops and full productions, across the U.S., U.K., the Middle East, Canada and Asia, with recent invitations to develop work at the William Inge Theatre Festival (2018), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Playwriting Intensive (...
Rachael received a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowship, a 2021 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Advanced Dramatic Writing Fellowship, and has had more than 250 readings, development workshops and full productions, across the U.S., U.K., the Middle East, Canada and Asia, with recent invitations to develop work at the William Inge Theatre Festival (2018), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Playwriting Intensive (2019), the Midwestern Dramatists Center Conference (2018 & 2019), the Mid-America Theater Conference (2019 & 2020), the American Association for Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Series (2019), the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2019), the Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights Initiative (2019), the Parson’s Nose Theatre’s Women Playwright Series (Winter and Fall, 2019), the Cambridge U.K. WriteON Festival (2019) and the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival (2019) and the Great Plains Theatre Conference (2020 - moved to 2021, due to Covid.) Her work is seen in many literary journals, including the Coachella Review, the Silk Road Review, Feels Blind Literary, the Extinction Rebellion, Some Scripts, the StoneCoast Review, Quince Magazine, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Smith & Kraus Best Plays and Best Monologues anthologies (2021), the Hominum Journal, the Canyon Voices Literary Magazine, the Ponder Review and more. Her work has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. Rachael is the founder and editor of CodeRedPlaywrights, a consortium of writers across the country, responding to gun violence. She serves as a regional representative for the Dramatists Guild of America, is a national voting member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, is the coordinator of New Play Development for KDC Theatre, London, and is a festival reader for the Athena Project, the Blank Theatre Living Room Series and the American Association of Theatre in Higher Education. In 2020, Rachael developed two web series with cross-country collaborators, and edited an anthology of new plays from writers around the world. In 2021, she will use funding from the Oregon Arts Commission to develop a full-length play rooted in an inclusive reexamination of American history. Rachael and her family live in Oregon. www.rachaelcarnes.com