Rachel Marie

Rachel Marie Schachter (she/they) is a Boston-based actor, vocalist, and music teacher whose love of reading began before they can remember. As a queer, nonbinary femme, they love lending their voice to authentic, messy women and queer characters, and especially breathing life into positive representation for younger listeners. Whether narrating literary fiction, magical realism and fantasy, non-fiction, or thriller, Rachel Marie eats up stories with complex characters who reflect, learn, and grow. Their favorite genre is what they call "trauma ghosties" — when the spooky looks like facing down our own demons.​​​

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Rachel Marie's stage highlights include the Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Dido) at Drew University, the Handel oratorio Juditha Triumphans (Abra) with Eudaimonia, and most recently and least musically, John Cariani's Last Gas (Cherry-Tracy) with Balefire Productions. ​​With musical interests and training in styles ranging from Medieval chant and Baroque opera to pop, country, and musical theatre, Rachel gets a kick out of infusing their acting roles with singing when the opportunity presents itself. As a songwriter, Rachel produces and publishes their own work as Rachel Marie.

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When not acting or singing, Rachel takes lots of walks in the woods with their dog, chops wood, ponders reconciliation of queerness and Christian faith, practices reading and writing in Spanish, and has on-again off-again relationships with knitting and acrylic painting. They see their most important vocation as working to make the communities they’re part of more equitable.