Over the years, Rachelle has been commissioned to compose music for theater. In 2009 she composed the music for Taylor Mac's Obie Award winning epic theater piece "The Lily's Revenge," which premiered at HERE Arts Center in NYC and was most recently presented by American Repertory Theater at Harvard University.  That same year, The Franklin Stage Company located in Delaware County, NY commissioned and premiered the original musical "American Fairy Tales," based on little-known stories by L. Frank Baum, for which she wrote all of the songs and music and was cast as the principal character. She has composed and performed music for NYU's Experimental Theater Wing's productions of The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet, and wrote songs for the award-winning Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater's production of Purim Spiel. For many years, she served as Musical Director of The Citizens Band, as well as writing and performing many of the troupe's signature anthems.  

If you've read this far, you can see that Rachelle is definitely a departure from the acoustic folk singer-songwriters  and roots music bands I often present at Common Ground. But I really want as many people as possible to hear her music and see her live. Her music is at once hilarious, bittersweet, childlike and challenging. I hope you'll join us.