RACHEL DICKSTEIN (Director)
Rachel Dickstein devised, choreographed, and directed the world premiere of the critically acclaimed INNOCENTS at the Ohio Theatre (based on Edith Wharton's THE HOUSE OF MIRTH and earlier workshops of the same work at the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center and at the Annex at LaMama, ETC. She is currently preparing the company's newest work BETROTHED which sold out its limited Ice Factory festival run in August 2006 and will premiere at the Ohio Theatre in May 2007. Other Ripe Time projects include THE SECRET OF STEEP RAVINES at P.S. 122, THE HOLY MOTHER OF HADLEY NEW YORK by Barbara Wiechmann and co-produced with New Georges, and THE PALACE AT 4 A.M. (based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe and the work of photographer Sophie Calle) presented at HERE Arts Center. Other recent directing projects include Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd's IN WHAT LANGUAGE? at the Asia Society, REDCAT, and the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art and Ellen McLaughlin's version of THE TROJAN WOMEN at Fordham University. Rachel has created and directed other new works for New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, The Ohio Theatre, SUNY-Purchase, NYSF/Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab, Drama League Director's Project and Seattle's Annex Theatre. She has served as a resident director at New Dramatists and Assistant Director to dance-theatre luminary Martha Clarke nationally and internationally. She has received grants, commissions, fellowships and residencies from NYSCA, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, P.S. 122, NEA/TCG, the Drama League, the Ko Festival of Performance, and Yale University where she received her B.A.