Rachel Christopher
Biography
Theatre includes Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (Chita Rivera Award). Off-Broadway credits include: What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Bad News: I Was There, Sonic Life… Regional credits include: An Iliad (Long Wharf), Song of Rome (Spoleto Festival), Disgraced (St. Louis Rep), Midsummer, Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare St. Louis), Intimate Apparel ( Shakespeare & Co.), By the Queen (Trinity Rep). Film and TV credits include “Instinct,” “Blindspot,” “Madame Secretary,” The Upside, Girl on the Train, “Billions.”
Credits
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
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Dan Plehal
Currently in: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
he/him. Broadway debut. Tour: Frozen (Sven). Chicago: The Doppelgänger (World Premiere, Steppenwolf), Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass), Love Actually: The Unauthorized Musical Parody (Apollo Theater Chicago). Television: “Chicago Fire,” “Mysteries Of Laura.” Movement Direction: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Steppenwolf), Midsummer, Thumbelina, A Wrinkle in Time, Urinetown, Titus Andronicus, The Zombie Life. Co-Founder and former Co-Artistic Director of Aura CuriAtlas Physical Theatre. Training: Accademia dell’Arte, Second City, College of William & Mary.
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