achel is a UK-based playwright whose plays have been performed in the UK and internationally, including in London at The Hampstead Theatre, the Royal Court, The Arcola Theatre, and The Kings Head, also at Chichester Festival Theatre, the Hazlitt Theatre in Maidstone, Manhattan Theatre Source in New York, Live Girls in Seattle, and Auroville in India.


She has a wide range of interests which inform her writing. Projects to date have included original work, adaptations, translations, theatre for young audiences, and dramaturgy of collaborative devised work.


A sought-after workshop leader, Rachel shares her time between writing, producing, teaching, and arts project management.


Rachel is co-founder of Peut-être Theatre www.peutetretheatre.co.uk

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"Rachel Barnett's 'For a Button', picks up the mood again, ably combining the kind of one-act domestic humouresques that WS Gilbert and GB Shaw used to go in for with a sinister 'Single White Female' edge. It's also very funny." (Time Out. 4 stars. Recommended)