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Rachel S. Bass (she/they) is a jewish, disabled filmmaker based out of Los Angeles.

With a background in new work theater dramaturgy, disaster management, and planetary sciences, Rachel brings their eclectic experiences to their artistic world-building and character development. She makes narratives about finding hope through connection and community, often grappling with loss and evolutions of mundanity.

Rachel has completed the Consent Forward Artist Certificate from Intimacy Directors and Choreographers, Inc. In their free time, Rachel is a regular at trivia nights, reads cookbooks, knits with friends, and grows an arboretum in her living room.

Contact

rachelshaynabass [at] gmail [dot] com

Rachel is available for story consulting, edit feedback, and intimacy coordination. Please email her for rates.

Work Experience & Internships

ROOM TIMER at Glass Engine Productions (2025-Present)

ASSISTANT EDITOR at W. W. Norton & Co. (2021-2023)

ECO-DRAMATURGY CONSULTANT with Chickenshed NYC (2022)

DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT (VR) with Double Eye Studios (2021)

PUBLICITY INTERN at Tor Publishing Group (2019)

CASTING INTERN at Jim Carnahan Casting c/o Roundabout Theatre Company (2018)

COURSE ASSISTANT “Theater in NYC” with Dyana Kimball at Columbia University Summer High School Program (2018-2019)

CASTING INTERN with Lina Todd Casting (2017)

Trainings

MBS Illumination Training Program for G&E (2024)

Completion of Consent-Forward Artist Program for Intimacy Direction/Choreography, with IDC (2021-2023)

  • Foundations of Intimacy I with Colleen Hughes & Charlie Baker

  • Foundations of Intimacy II with Cessa Betancourt & Cara Rawlings

  • Intimacy as Storytelling: The Dramaturgy of Intimacy with Cha Ramos & Colleen Hughes

  • Intro to Kink & BDSM for Theatre, TV, and Film with Dr. Timaree Schmit

  • Scene Work with Kink & BDSM: for Actors, Directors, & Intimacy Professionals with Dr. Timaree Schmit & Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson

  • The Necessity of Closure with Renee Redding Jones

B.A. from New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

  • Scenic Design, with Salvatore Tagliarino (2020)

  • The Contemporary Broadway Musical Theater, with Kristoffer Diaz (2019)

  • Devising, with Nancy Smithner PhD (2018)

  • Directing for the Twenty-First Century, with Kristin Horton (2017)

Historical & New Work Dramaturgy, with Dr. David Bisaha (2017)

  • Dramaturgy of Sondheim

  • New Work Dramaturgy (independent mentorship)

  • Building of Dramaturgy Concentration at Binghamton University, SUNY with Kasha Pazdar and Dr. Dave Bisaha