Rachel Sheinkin

Personal Information

RACHEL SHEINKIN (Book Writer) Recent productions include Striking 12, a hybrid concert/play written in collaboration with the rock band GrooveLily and director Ted Sperling (Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia; Old Globe, San Diego; TheatreWorks, Palo Alto); book and lyrics for Blood Drive (music Joel Derfner, Eugene O’Neill NMT Conference; Bridewell Theatre, London; Provincetown Playhouse, NYC); and book and lyrics for Serenade (music Nils Olaf Dolven, development Norwegian Consulate General & NYU alumni New Voices award). She is currently collaborating on the new GrooveLily musical, Wheelhouse, and writing a play, Ten Plagues. Rachel is an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Striking 12	Daryl Roth Theatre	11/12/2006	Author
2	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee	Second Stage Theatre	02/07/2005	Book

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2007 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical	Striking 12	Author
2	WON	2005 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee	Book
3	WON	2005 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Book of a Musical	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee	Book