Rachel Tuggle Whorton is a performer, director, writer, and educator who promotes the arts as tools for personal expression, cooperative storytelling, community dialogue, and social change. She has enjoyed collaborating with groups across the country, including Royal Caribbean International, National YoungArts Foundation, La Jolla Playhouse, Blindspot Collective, San Diego Musical Theatre, The Acapella Company, Harding University Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The New School, CO/LAB Theater Group, New York Film Academy, Havas Luxe Events, NYU Looking for Shakespeare, & New York City Center. Her 2017 Off-Broadway performance, Her Opponent, was featured in The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, and on MSNBC. Rachel has published articles in RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance and Teaching Artist Journal. She is also the co-creator of My Other Job, an ethnodrama about the lives of working actors in New York City (published in ArtsPraxis). Rachel holds a Ph.D. in Educational Theater from New York University, where she often serves as an adjunct instructor and music director. Member: Actors’ Equity Association; Dramatists Guild.