About Rachel

Rachel Pollock is a native Tennessean, currently residing in the Triangle area of central North Carolina. She became interested in theatre at a young age, thanks to her parents' tradition of taking yearly vacations in NYC to see many Broadway and off-Broadway shows. She attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville on a full academic scholarship, creating her own individualized major through the College Scholars program. She combined the disciplines of dramatic interpretation, fiber art, life drawing, and masters classes in costume design, history, and technology, to obtain a unique BA in professional level costuming for stage and film.

She is also an accomplished quiltwright (having completed 15 quilts to date) and wearable-artist, as well as a novelist and published essayist. While living in Chicago, she toured as a keyboardist with a rock band and gained some acclaim as a nationally-known alternative DJ. She then relocated to Boston where she spent several years working in the professional theatre community, a career move that culminated in her appointment as Lead Craft Artisan at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University (one of the three best professional regional theatres in the country, according to Time magazine). After four acclaimed years at the ART, she spent a year doing film and television costuming, followed by a stint on the craft team at the Los Angeles Opera. Now she is the Lead Crafts Artisan at PlayMakers Repertory Company of Chapel Hill, and resident lecturer on costume craftwork for UNC-Chapel Hill's MFA program in costume production. In her leisure time, she enjoys traveling, writing novels and essays, and attending live shows of her favorite bands.

Rachel's professional blog, La Bricoleuse, can be found here.