Rachel Gita Karp supports bold, strategic, and ambitious organizations, people, and projects that fight for progressive causes with creativity and innovation. She’s helped hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals all over the world with training, community-building, mentorship, and more. This work builds off of and feeds Rachel’s background in activist theater.
Rachel’s creative practice focuses on writing and directing performances to change U.S. politics and public policy. Rachel has created political performances in New York through Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, Mabou Mines, The Drama League, Irondale, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Wild Project, The Brick, The Flea, IRT, Dixon Place, Incubator Arts Project, Anonymous Ensemble, Women Center Stage, and Network of Ensemble Theatres. Regionally, her work has been produced through La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics, and Philly Fringe, and she has written and directed productions produced at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chatham University, Columbia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been exhibited at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial and broadcast on North Carolina public television.
Rachel has held residencies across the US including at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Barn Arts, Monson Arts, Tofte Lake Center, Marble House Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her associate and assistant directing credits include productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional.
Rachel Gita Karp received her BA from Columbia University and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. At Carnegie Mellon she was a John Wells Directing Fellow, which supported her academics, and a Milton and Cynthia Friedman Fellow, which supported her work in women’s policy research in Washington, D.C.
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