Rachel Bertone
Rachel Bertone (Advisory Board) Rachel Bertone is an award-winning director and choreographer with over 20 years of experience as a theater and dance professional. Known for creating high-quality, emotionally engaging theatrical experiences, she currently serves as the Artistic Director at Reagle Music Theatre and is the first woman to be appointed to this position in its 55-year history.
Named by theater critics as “Director of the Decade” and “one of Boston’s best musical
whisperers”, Bertone has staged more than 50 musicals, earning accolades for her work, including an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Choreography for Oklahoma!, and multiple IRNE Awards for Cabaret (Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Musical), Carousel (Best Choreography), In the Heights (Best Musical), and The Wild Party (Best Musical). Other notable productions include An American in Paris, West Side Story, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Pippin, South Pacific, Les Misérables, Gypsy, Company, Floyd Collins, Little Shop of Horrors, Billy Elliot, Guys and Dolls, Barnum, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Show Boat, and HAIR.
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In addition to her stage accomplishments, Bertone has contributed to several New York-based projects, notably serving as co-conceiver and choreographer for Van Gogh: A New Musical. She was also hand-selected by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk to direct a digital theater piece for their musical The Mad Ones.
As a theater and dance professor, Bertone has taught at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University, Emerson College, Long Island University, and Boston Ballet School. She judges for the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild (METG) and has built an international following for her variety of musical theater classes and professional development consulting services.
Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Bertone splits her time between New York and Boston, passionately creating theater and cultivating opportunities for artists everywhere she goes.
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Education
Boston Conservatory at Berklee