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Rachel Jendrzejewski is an interdisciplinary performance artist, currently based in Minneapolis as a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights' Center.

Plays include Meronymy; Encyclopedia; Grace Note; Bluebird; Bacteria; Harpsichord Capable of Playing at the Normal Level, and More Strongly; and DUMB. Her work has been developed or produced at Padua Playwrights/ArtShare L.A., Playwrights' Horizons, American Repertory Theater's New Voices Series, Theater Masters/The Wild Project, Rhode Island School of Design's Fleet Library, Pell Chafee Performance Center, Granoff Center for Creative Arts, The Listening LabOratory, and NYC's Conflux Festival. She has performed and/or otherwise collaborated on additional theatre, film, music, photography, and installation work throughout the U.S., England, France, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Hong Kong. She is also a former staff member of Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles); former Assistant Coordinator of The Grotowski Year 2009 at the Grotowski Institute (Poland); and a founding member of the Awesome Collective (Providence), exploring new collaborative performance vocabularies.

Additional honors include a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, travel/project grants from the Brown University Graduate School and Creative Arts Council, a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Theater Institute, and two residencies with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland). Rachel is a graduate of the M.F.A. Playwriting program at Brown, where she studied with Erik Ehn and Lisa D'Amour.