Rachel Zake is a writer, actor, and director. She has published four books: Two People are Coming out of a Building (2014, fiction), The Nomad Diaries (2017, nonfiction), Pants Off/Dance Off: A Gentleman’s Guide (2019, nonfiction) and The Actuality of Us: Leiland & Emmeline (2021, fiction). Her plays have been seen onstage at various Ohio venues, most recently at BorderLight Fringe Festival. You can see her next production about the great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Prospect of Equality, on stage at Ensemble Theatre in May 2024. Rachel has been acting for over 30 years so stage (Playhouse Square, Dobama Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, Cain Park, Playwrights Local, and Halle Theatre among others) and in film/TV (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, How I Met Your Mother, This is 40 among others). She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild of America and Dobama Theatre’s Playwrights’ GYM. She currently serves as Vice President of the Board for Dobama Theatre. She is a proud Hathaway Brown School and Boston University alum – go Blazers!! Go Terriers!! Rachel has lived in Boston, Los Angeles, London and Madrid, but happily calls Cleveland home, where she resides with her husband, son and stepdaughter