Rachel Sussman
Photo credit: Michael Kushner Photography
Rachel Sussman is a two-time Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur who believes deeply in elevating human stories that challenge existing systems and create more space for inquiry, empathy, and action. She is a co-founder of The Business of Broadway as well as the new production company, rigor + ruckus.
Broadway producing credits include: Liberation (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize); Suffs (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nom, also on PBS); Just for Us (Special Tony Award, also on HBOMax); Parade (Tony Award); Prima Facie What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom, Pulitzer Prize finalist); and Prima Facie. Select Off-Broadway credits: The Woodsman (Obie Award), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Lortel Award), Lighting Rod Special’s The Appointment, and Diana Nyad: The Swimmer. Additional productions: Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live!; Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares; and Penelope.
A former WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel received the 2018 Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing, JQY’s Queer Icon Award, a Brennan Center for Justice Legacy Award, and was named one of Variety’s “10 to Watch on Broadway.” She is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a University Honors Scholar alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts and NYU Tisch.