Rachelle is an actor, singer, dancer, and theatermaker from South Africa, now based in New York City. She recently graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Music (with honors & distinction) and a minor in Theater & Performance Studies.

At Stanford, she performed in musical theater classics including Cabaret (Sally Bowles) and A Chorus Line (Cassie), but found herself drawn to new plays and musicals, emerging projects where she could be a creative collaborator as well as a performer. Having embraced this exploratory instinct, her work has now spanned performing, directing, devising, playwriting, songwriting, improv, and vocal directing.

Rachelle is the recipient of Stanford Music's Musical Theater Artistry Award, the Rita Taylor Prize, and the Robert M. Golden Medal. She has sung as a soloist with Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble OH?, Brandon James Gwinn in A Night at the Piano bar, and in the world premiere of Scott Ordway's song cycle Evening Land. 

Rachelle grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and discovered her love of theater as a ten-year-old playing Brigitta von Trapp in the Johannesburg run of the 2014 international tour of The Sound of Music, followed by Pepper in the 2016 South African tour of Annie.

She is a proud alumnus of the Stanford Improvisors.