Rachel Bublitz is an award winning and internationally produced playwright known for telling stories about women, and creating exciting new work for young performers.
Her play Funny, Like An Abortion received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Mile Square
Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, and The VORTEX. She received the prestigious
Will Glickman Award
for the best premiere play in the San Francisco Bay Area for her full-length
Ripped. Her play The Night Witches
has received over fifty
productions worldwide. Rachel was recognized as
a top emerging female playwright in the Bay Area, receiving the June Anne Baker Prize.
Her work has been produced at theaters and schools across the country, as well as Canada,
England, Ireland, and Australia.
Rachel moved to Salt Lake City in 2016. Since her move she’s been produced by Good Company Theatre (Ripped), and was
named the resident playwright of the Egyptian YouTheatre. She has developed her plays with Salt Lake Acting Company (Ripped,
Burst, and Let's Fix Andy), Plan-B Theatre (Mommy Dances With The Devil and Tip Top Triangle), The University of Utah
(Hear Us Roar), Utah Shakespeare Festival (Burst), as well as multiple commissions from the Egyptian YouTheatre
(Cheerleaders VS. Aliens, The Night Witches, and The Summer I Howled).
Nationally Rachel has been produced by Alleyway Theatre (Burst), Adjusted Realists (Red Days), Alchemy Theatre (The Book Women
and Cheerleaders VS. Aliens), Relative Theatrics (Burst), Loud Fridge Theatre Group (Ripped), American Lives Theatre (Funny, Like An Abortion),
Barrington Stage Company (My Body), Fat Theatre Project (Funny, Like An Abortion), as well as many other theaters. She's also had two commissions from publisher Stage Partners; The Book Women and The Hardy Girls.
Her work is published with Dramatic Publishing (The Night Witches and Burst), Playscripts (Biz Town, Ghost House,
and Operation Chicken Takeover), Stage Partners (The Book Women, The Hardy Girls, Of Serpents & Sea Spray, and
The Red House Monster), Pioneer Drama Service (Cheerleaders VS. Aliens), YouthPLAYS (The Summer I Howled), Brooklyn
Publishers (Blood & Sequins), as well as others.
Other awards include Pioneer Drama Service’s Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest. She received an MFA in playwriting from
San Francisco State University, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. When she’s not writing,
she’s watching her kids dominate at water polo.
