Rachel Chavkin

Rachel Chavkin is a director, sometimes writer, and artistic director of the Brooklyn-based experimental collective, The TEAM (www.theteamplays.org), whose work has been seen all over NY, the US, 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 of 1812” (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). Select projects: 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” (first 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” (Lincoln Center Theater; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), Dave Malloy’s “Preludes” (LCT3), 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 and performer Chris Thorpe. Chavkin returns to Broadway this spring with Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s “Lempicka.” Her first short film, “Remind Me,” was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. She is the recipient of the 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity.