Rachel adapted The Mirror Crack’d for Agatha Christie Limited. Her stage version has had multiple UK tours and productions, a transfer to NCPA in Mumbai, and various international productions. It was most recently produced at The Alley Theatre, Texas, for their Summer Chills 2025. Rachel wrote the book for Flowers for Mrs Harris, which transferred to Chichester Festival Theatre after premiering at the Sheffield Crucible. The original production won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical and the London premiere at Riverside Studios won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production. Flowers for Mrs Harris is currently making its US debut at The Ruth and Nathan Hale Theater, Utah. Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’s novel, Birdsong, opening in the West End. Her award-winning stage version has had five subsequent UK tours with Original Theatre Company. Rachel’s musical Moonshadow, co-written with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), played at the Royal Albert Hall and the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. Rachel also wrote the book for original musical Only The Brave, which opened at the Wales Millennium Centre.
With Duncan Abel, Rachel adapted Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, which has had two highly successful UK tours and a West End transfer (Duke of York’s). Duncan and Rachel’s adaptation of The Da Vinci Code opened as a UK tour, and transferred to Ogunquit Playhouse, Maine. New productions recently played at Salisbury Playhouse (UK), Vertigo Theatre (Calgary) and Drury Lane (Chicago). A new production is currently playing at The Alley Theatre, Texas. Rachel and Duncan have recently co-adapted P.D. James’s Death Comes to Pemberley, which has just completed a UK tour. In Autumn 2024, Rachel premiered two new plays, both written with Duncan Abel – Room 13, an original ghost play, at the Barn Theatre and a stage adaptation of Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling for the Mill at Sonning.
For radio, Rachel adapted Sebastian Faulks’ novel The Girl at the Lion d’Or as a five-part series for and, with Duncan Abel, wrote When I Lost You, both for Radio 4. Her theatre work is performed internationally, and she currently has multiple screen projects and new plays in development.
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