Screenwriter, author, researcher, math and physics teacher

I am an award-winning screenwriter, author and past-president of Women in Film & Television Vancouver. I have been involved in the film industry for over fifteen years, first as an actress, then as a creative producer of numerous short films, including a co-production shot in South Korea, and now as a full-time screenwriter and script consultant. more I am an award-winning screenwriter, author and past-president of Women in Film & Television Vancouver. I have been involved in the film industry for over fifteen years, first as an actress, then as a creative producer of numerous short films, including a co-production shot in South Korea, and now as a full-time screenwriter and script consultant.

I have a few projects at different stages of development, including 9630, a feature-length paranormal sci-fi thriller with Brightlight Pictures (Colossal, 50/50, White Noise); Theory of Evelyn, a dramatic TV series, with Reality Distortion Field (Continuum, Van Helsing); and FLOW, which has been optioned by Amber Ripley of Goodbye Productions (Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Entanglement).

As a writer-for-hire, I was chosen out of submissions from across France and North America to do the rewrite of an upcoming major motion picture (a biopic/love story) with Firstep Productions (Les Misérables, Midnight in Paris).

In September 2014, I released my memoir, CHRYSALIS: A Dark and Delicious Diary of Emergence.

~Described as Eat, Pray, Love meets Bridget Jones's Diary if either woman was a bulimic, alcoholic divorced twice by age thirty-nine, CHRYSALIS chronicles Rachelle's heart-wrenching, heart-healing metamorphic year. Chrysalis is now being adapted into a TV Series entitled HEAR ME ROAR!~

I have an eclectic teaching resume as well, having taught and counseled students of all ages, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds locally and abroad. I have a Bachelor of Secondary Education with a major in Physics and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Alberta, but have also taught screenwriting, creative writing and ESL. In addition to teaching in the public school system, I have taught in South Korea and India, as well as an independent school for young offenders in Burnaby, BC and most recently at a private education centre in Vancouver working primarily one-on-one with FASD, autistic and dyslexic students.
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