Originally from Sewanee, TN, Rachel Bonds is a playwright and performer currently living in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at New Georges, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LaMaMa, The Flea, Playwrights Horizons, The Greenpoint Division, The Sewanee Writers’ Conference and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her play MICHAEL & EDIE was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick in December 2010.
She is an Affiliated Artist with New Georges; a member of Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s company of emerging professional playwrights; and a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group. She was an Associate Artist in Residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Father William Ralston Fellow at the 2011 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Rachel is a graduate of Brown University.