Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-nominated producer and a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging theatre artist residency program in her native state of Michigan. She has worked with such companies as Audible Theater, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Second Stage Theatre, RKO Stage, and Lincoln Center's American Songbook. Producing credits include: Heidi Schreck's Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-nominated play, What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway), the Obie Award-winning production of The Woodsman (Off-Broadway), and Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door at NYTW). In development: The Suffragists by Shaina Taub and Devotion by Mark Sonnenblick. A past Women's Project Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel is the recipient of the 2019 Geraldine Stutz T. Fellowship in Creative Producing, founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of NYU Tisch. www.rachel-sussman.com
Sessions in which Rachel Sussman participates
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- The Business of Broadway: Producing 101 New York Hilton Midtown - Murray Hill Room
- 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- How does a play or musical actually make it to Broadway? Each new show is like a startup, and the producer is its CEO. Led by early-career Broadway...
- Panel