
Rachel is a Filipina-American award-winning filmmaker/writer/actor, who is passionate about telling stories that matter. She is additionally an enthusiastic, queer, outspoken advocate for mental health education and destigmatization.
Notably, she won a student Emmy at the 2013 College Television Awards, for her web series, The Sub Club. Her short films, Maple’s Tree and Bicultural, were official selections in quite a few film festivals around the world, including Outfest, BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+, and others. She served as co-creator/showrunner and lead actress in the web series, Crazy, which premiered in the 2020 InsideOut Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Her TV scripts have advanced as finalists in the 2018 NBC Writers on the Verge program, the second round of the 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab, and a finalist in the 2020 Sundance Makers Lab. Apart from winning the Script Pipeline Runner-Up award, her feature film script Violet, Violet is also part of Network ISA’s Development Slate.
As an actress, Rachel’s TV credits include a guest star on NBC’s Chicago Fire, most recently recurring in BET’s Games People Play as ‘Susie Q’, and a great role on Netflix’s Atypical, Season 3.
Contact: jennifer@atnentertainment.com
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