Rachel Alana Handler

Rachel Alana Handler is a filmmaker and theatre artist based in Jersey City, NJ. Most recently she won the AT&T Underrepresented Filmmaker Award and the Sundance Co//ab June Monthly Challenge. Since joining the disabled community she's found a passion for writing and directing; advocating for inclusion in every project she creates. Her writing/directing credits include the award-winning short films, The Housewarming, Committed, The Vanished, and Authentically Me which won the Reelabilities 27 Second Film Competition and screened in taxi cabs throughout NYC. Handler's screen acting credits include Law & Order: SVU, Goliath, New Amsterdam and NCIS: New Orleans. Some of her favorite stage credits include Marian in The Music Man, Lady Anne in Richard III and Maria in The Sound of Music.