Rachel Kaufman on Clubhouse

Bio

Music Director 🎼
Accompanist 🎹
Vocal Coach 🎤
Multi-lnstrumentalist 🪗🎸🎹
Composer 🎭

Rachel Kaufman, a Brooklyn native, is a multi-instrumentalist who has music directed and/or played for well over 300 musicals and cabaret shows world-wide. Theater credits include: Off-B'way: Tale of Two Cities (10th year reunion concert at the Birdland Theatre), Goldstein: The Musical (with Megan McGinnis), Oliver! (with Brian Stokes Mitchell, James Barbour & Melissa Errico), and Schoolhouse Rock Live!; Tours: Rent, Phantom of the Opera, Ain't Misbehavin', Five Guys Named Moe, and Smokey Joe's Café; Regional: Tom Jones (North Shore), Hallelujah, Baby! (Arthur Laurents, dir.), and Golf: The Musical. She has also written music for several shows that have been in the NY Fringe Festival & elsewhere, including Ebony Black, Cycle, ln the Schoolyard, and The Great Pie Robbery. She has also just completed writing the music to the new musical Against the Grain by June Rachelson-Ospa and Clara Francesca. Rachel can also be seen playing for auditions, classes, improv comedy groups, at churches, piano bars, restaurants and, during the summer, she has played in the orchestra and atrium on cruise ships. She has also worked with such Broadway greats as Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee, Savion Glover, and Donna Murphy, just to name a few.

During this pandemic, Rachel created a series of what she calls "CoVideos," which consisted of remote collaborations with friends & former students all over the world, which she posted almost every day on Facebook for over 225 days. You can find all of these on Facebook if you search #covidwithradini, as well as some on her YouTube channel (Radini7) and on Instagram (rkaufman.md)