Rachel Blackman

Rachel Blackman is Artistic Director of Stillpoint Theatre, bringing together the teams that create Stillpoint’s work and steering the company’s vision. Rachel’s work as Stillpoint is fascinated by the body as a resource of non-verbal language and of live performance as a site of ritual, collective dreaming and transformation. Rachel trained and worked as an actress in Australia before relocating to England where she is now based. As well as Stillpoint, Rachel works as a collaborative artist, actor, director and consultant on other projects. For nearly a decade she has been collaborating with Katy Schutte on the improvised show Katy and Rach. Recent non-Stillpoint projects include Rituals For Change by Emma Frankland (Collaborator); Bloodlines by Talia Randall – (Roundhouse, London – Director); The Bombing of the Grand Hotel by Wildspark Theatre – (Actor); 3 Mile Radius, by Talia Randall – (Rich Mix, London – Director); Heliosphere by Chroma – (Performer / Collaborator); Impulse by Chroma – (Performer / Co-divisor); Ghosts in the Machine dance film by Billy Cowie – (Dancer / Actor). Notable earlier work includes: Charra in Matrix Revolutions (Actor – Time Warner, AOL); The Crucible (Actor – Elizabeth Proctor, Sydney Theatre Company Dir: Marion Potts), Home and Away (Actor); Aperture: Life at Three Different Speeds (Actor / co-writer – Tamarama Rock Surfers); Ruby (Actor – Country Q films).