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Shakespeare without Sight or Sound was a project Rachel developed for dog & pony dc’s Sense-Able initiative consisting of two translations of Shakespearian texts into performances without any visual or auditory elements. Rachel posed these questions at the start of the project to the mixed hearing and Deaf, sighted, and otherwise non-disabled ensemble: What are…

DISCOVERED!: The Amazing Untold Stories of Catenarians was created during dog & pony dc’s year as Creatives-in-Residence at Washington, DC’s National Building Museum. Rachel Grossman co-conceived of DISCOVERED!, was the primary playwright, and director. She also appeared in the show. DISCOVERED! was equal parts audience integrated performance, museum theatre, and creative dramatics workshop. The show was…

Beertown is dog & pony dc’s signature show. It premiered in November 2011 at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, and subsequently was remounted in the DC-metropolitan area four times, performed Off-Broadway, featured at Lincoln Center Theatre’s Directors Lab, revised and produced at theatres in Omaha, Cincinnati, and Raleigh to echo those distinct towns, re-written and…