Page to the Stage event: Death Doula
The Death Doula
by Rachel Borders
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
Wednesday 4/22: 1-5 pm PST (Readthrough & Discussion)
Monday 4/27: 5 – 9 pm PST
Tuesday 4/28: 5 – 9 pm PST
Wednesday 4/29: 2-6 pm & then the show at 7:30
DEATH DOULA – A family is surprised to learn their patriarch is dying and even more surprised to find he’s hired a Death Doula to assist them through the transition. A dark comedy about death, inheritance, and the decisions that define our legacies.
Rachel Borders is a screenwriter, playwright, and director based in Los Angeles. As a screenwriter, Rachel currently writes for Netflix’s hit romantic drama Virgin River and has written for FOX’s Proven Innocent and DirecTV’s Rogue. As a playwright, she’s a current winner of the Play LA prize. She’s also an alumna of the IAMA’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, IAMA’s New Works Festival, and The Road Theatre’s Under Construction Playwrights Group. The only thing Rachel loves more than hotdogs and math is ruining karaoke bars by singing showtunes. She recently became a trained death doula; ask her about it.
Off-Broadway: Made by God (World Premiere, Irish Repertory Theatre), Cold War Choir Practice (Asst. Director, MTC, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73), We Are Not Well (NYU Tisch/Clifford Odetts Commission), Anatomy of a Suicide (NYU Tisch/Strasberg)
International: Venus in Fur (Rough Magic Theatre Company, Project Arts Centre), Brambles (Dublin Fringe Festival), We Can’t Have Monkeys in the House (The Peacock at The Abbey, National Theatre of Ireland), Beside the Sea (Composed by Ian Wilson, Irish Tour) Disconnected (The New Theatre/Smock Alley Theatre), Each Day Dies with Sleep (The Lir), Tribes (Assc. Director, The Gate), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Assc. Director, Rough Magic/Kilkenny Arts Festival), Unwoman III (Assc. Director, The Rabble, Dublin Fringe Festival).
Regional: tiny father (World Premiere, Assc. Dir, Chautauqua Theatre Company), Ironbound (Assc. Dir, Geffen Playhouse).
Artistic Association and Leadership: Chautauqua Theatre Company Directing Fellow, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab West, Prague Quadrenial, Dublin Theatre Festival Artistic Associate, Next Stage Participant (DTF), PlayGround-NY Company Member, SEEDS Resident Director at Rough Magic Theatre Company, Contemporary Artist-in-Residence at The National Gallery of Ireland.
Developed new work with Ensemble Studio Theatre, IAMA, Clubbed Thumb, The Chain, TheaterLab (NYC), SparkFest, and The Rat.
Education: BFA NYU Tisch, MFA The Lir, National Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity College Dublin.