Rachel Martsolf graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN with a BA in Theatre (Performance and Direction) and Religious Studies. With a strong conviction that theatre is an invaluable tool for cultivating compassion and instigating action, Rachel is thrilled to join DAT on their Theatrical Mission to change the world. While at Rhodes College, Rachel was honored to collaboratively direct and create the first ever student directed main-stage production of Higher Ground. As an actor/dancer she began her performance career in New York, with a focus on new plays and collaboratively created performances such as The Field of Mars: Chapter 1, The Inferno Project, The Last Time I Died and Summer 2005 as well as more familiar plays and musicals. She has taught dance and drama classes for Watoto de Afrika and Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN, and at The University of Arkansas’s summer arts intensive, Envision U, directing and choreographing for final performances. Her choreography credits include Big Love, Into the Woods, The World Goes Round and The Sound of Music as well as non-musicals such as Hamlet and Miss. Julie. Rachel is currently working on a created movement narrative piece, Oceana, at the Vortex Repertory Theatre in Austin, TX. Her New York stage credits include The Inferno Project (ensemble), Tall Tales of True Stories (Julie), The Field of Mars: Chapter 1 (Emma) and Snoopy the Musical (Woodstock). She performed multiple times as a dancer with Amir Levi's company, The Poisonous Ladies. Rachel performed in Dramatic Adventure Theatre's production of Flight 360: Quito Bound and is pleased to join DAT again and return to Ecuador as a director in the project, ACTion: Ecuador.