August, 2025: RICHMOND UNDERGROUND
was streamed in the Rogue Virtual Theatre Festival.
Set in 1864-65, RICHMOND UNDERGROUND tells the true tale of a ring of Unionist spies
operated under the noses of the Confederacy. Among their ranks is wealthy, middle-aged
Elizabeth Van Lew, whose veneer of respectability lends the perfect cover...for a time...
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With: Kahrynn Aaliyah, Brent Alles, Cynthia Barry, LeShawn Bell, Jackson Bradshaw, Larry Brustofski,
Andrew R. Cooksey, Jr., Patrick Cope, Mark Cunningham, Daryl Hrdlicka, Bill Kassay, Maurice Kessler,
Charles Elliot Ladutke, Eileen Mager, Dane Rogers, Samuel Smalls, Karla Wren, and Anita Webb
June, 2025: The entire Wickham-Verse Trilogy received
public staged readings in New Jersey!
THE WICKHAM WAY direcxted by Bill Kaufman
With: John Fraissinet, Miranda Madrazo, Eileen Mager, Matt Marino, and Katie Maul
THE WAY FORWARD directed by Jonathan Brantley
With: Ginny S. Crooks, Aaron Drill, Miranda Madrazo, Matt Marino, and Katie Maul
THE WAY HOME directed by Angela Dallesandro
With: Ginny S. Crooks, Arthur Carlson, Aaron Drill, John Fraissinet, Anne Hennessy, Bill Kaufman,
Miranda Madrazo, C.E. Laduttke, Eileen Mager, Matt Marino, Katie Maul, and Allan Roberts
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About Rachel Rubin Ladutke, Playwright
Rachel Rubin Ladutke is a produced and published playwright living in Nova Scotia. Her works include 12 full-length plays, 4 musicals, and numerous shorter pieces. Excerpts from several of her plays appear in monologue and scene anthologies.
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Rachel attended Wheaton College and spent a semester at the National Theater Institute. She holds an M.A. in Theater from Hunter College/C.U.N.Y. She served as Editor of InSight For Playwrights, a monthly marketing newsletter, from 2003-2014.
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She is a member of Playwrights Atlantic Resource Center, Playwrights Guild of Canada, New Play Exchange, and P.A.G.E.S. She serves on the Board of both the Halifax Theater for Young People, and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
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Zoom theatre has been an inspiring experience for Rachel, as she developed and revised three full-length scripts through workshopping online. She has established relationships with performers and playwrights from all over the U.S. and the world.
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During the pandemic, Rachel began organizing virtual readings of classic and new works. She also participated in #Enough2022, a nationwide presentation of plays by teenage playwrights on the topic of gun violence, presented simultaneously by over 60 groups during the week of April 20th (the anniversary of Columbine).
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Wanting to provide opportunities for other playwrights, she organized States of Play, a weekly virtual reading series running from January through December of 2022. In its first year, States of Play presents plays by female+ playwrights, each set in a different state of the U.S. (plus Puerto RIco and D.C.). States of Play is now in its fifth year of providing playwrights with the opportunity to hear their work and engage in a rousing post-reading talkback session.