Rachel Lenart

Rachel Lenart is an award-winning theatre maker, director, designer, producer, and educator who has been leading professional and semi-professional theatre work since 2004. Rachel’s work has played at BATS, Circa, Downstage, Centrepoint, and Darwin Festival. She is a critically acclaimed lighting designer, working for dance companies and theatre productions, most recently He Reo Aroha at Centrepoint Theatre this July.

Rachel has developed a successful model for intimacy directing, based on a deep understanding of the actor’s process grounded in two decades of theatre direction and tertiary-level teaching, and founded through international and local guidelines. She has led intimacy work for Centrepoint Theatre, regional semi-professional productions, high schools, and tertiary students.