RACHEL RUECKER (the ravishing creature pictured and also the brilliant author of this website. unless you don’t like it in which case never mind) is a Vancouver-based actor, writer, comedian, and public transit taker.
she has her BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, training at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School in acting, writing, devising, and the ephemeral art of *theatremaking*, what that really means? who’s to say. she’s also randomly in grad school for her MFA in writing if you can even believe it. @ lit agents if u want a zillennial girlie memoir abt grief hit me the frick up!!!
in her stand up she loves leaning into all things girly. crushes on boys. instagram stories. a heavy-handed dose of glitter and romcom references. she can frequently be seen talking too fast on vancouver stages (local celeb.) she’s toured with her one-woman show my dad died and all i got was this show at the vancouver fringe festival and is workshopping a new solo work, overshare.
she has performed with theatre companies across the lower mainland in works spanning brand new canadian plays, experimental devised performance pieces, classic british murder mysteries, and everything in between (serious actress.)
she also gets called quirky a lot.
okay that’s enough referring to myself in the third person.
Artist Statement (serious edition):
As an actor-turned-theatre-maker-turned-stand-up-turned-writer-turned-storyteller, I am interested in genre-bending live performances that plays with and explores audience-performer relationship. Who are we to each other? Why are we here? Why does any of it matter? Not to get too existential with it…
Covered in glitter but often talking about death, I am interested in building trust with an audience, then allowing myself to push the boundaries of discomfort and navigate us all through the murky waters of life, death, and the vast space in between. Never to elicit shock or for the simple hell of it, but rather always to more deeply understand one another and connect through sharing laughter and space and seeking what lies just beyond our comfort zone.