Rachel Jendrzejewski
Rachel Jendrzejewski (yen-shzay-EF-skee) is an interdisciplinary artist most often based in Los Angeles. Her plays include DUMB, Thick Painting, Whiskey, umbrella (a memory play), Kiss to the Bluejays, and Grace Note, almost all of which were developed in PaduaLab, a studio course led by Guy Zimmerman and Coleman Hough. She has worked closely with Cornerstone Theater Company since 2004 and is a graduate of the Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency in San Francisco, where she studied playwriting with Octavio Solis. She is a founding member of The Traveling Neighborhood, an interdisciplinary arts collective exploring community structures and fernweh. Most recently, she spent a year in Poland serving as Assistant Coordinator for The Grotowski Year 2009 and collaborating on several experimental performance installations. Rachel holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts with emphases on music and global studies from Azusa Pacific University. She also studied acting at Hamilton College and the William Alderson Acting Studio. She was raised in rural Indiana by a family of visual artists and scientists.
