Valerie Rachelle has been a professional Director and Choreographer for the past 28 years. Born
and raised in Eugene, OR, she toured the world with her magical parents and their professional
illusionist show. Ms. Rachelle started as a dancer and was an apprentice ballerina with the Eugene
Ballet Company. Along with her professional dancing, Valerie is also a classically trained singer. She
attended California Institute of the Arts for her BFA in Acting and moved to LA where she co-founded
a not-for-profit theater dedicated to producing new works – Lucid By Proxy. Valerie produced and/or
directed 19 new plays with Lucid and its other founding members.

Valerie then attended the University of California Irvine for her MFA in Directing. After graduation
Valerie was the Casting Director/Administrator for PCPA Theaterfest where she was
also a Resident Director and Choreographer. Valerie also taught Movement, Mask, and Audition
Skills in their professional acting conservatory.

Upon moving back to Los Angeles, Ms. Rachelle began teaching in the Theater Department at the
University of Southern California. Valerie also continued to cultivate new and innovative works
including a new musical at the Academy of New Musical Theater in North Hollywood a contemporary
movement-based (contact improvisation) version of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and trained as an
Intimacy Director.

Valerie also served as a mentor through Statera Arts – an organization dedicated to bringing gender
equality to the arts. Two years ago Ms. Rachelle founded and is currently President of the Board of
SOCAA a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing access services to Southern
Oregon.

Valerie has worked at theaters around the country including: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah
Shakespeare Festival, New York University, Syracuse Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, Sierra Repertory
Theatre, PCPA Theaterfest, Glendale Center Theater, Performance Riverside, Lucid By Proxy,
Oregon Cabaret Theater, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater, University of Las Vegas
Nevada, Southern Utah State, Southern Oregon University, El Camino College, Summer Repertory
Theater, and many others.

Valerie has been the Artistic Director of the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, OR for the past 11
years while continuing to be a freelance Director/Choreographer. She is currently Oregon Cabaret
Theatre’s Executive Producer and the Associate Artistic Director of Stages in Houston.