Rachel Carey

Rachel Carey is a writer, director and filmmaker based in the New York City area. Her first feature film as writer/director, Ask for Jane, starring Cody Horn, Cait Cortelyou, Sarah Steele, Ben Rappaport, Emmy-nominee Alison Wright and Tony-nominee Saycon Sengbloh, received theatrical distribution through LevelFILM and was released in 2019 in several cities including New York and Los Angeles. She started her film career working for Artisan Entertainment and then as a casting assistant on projects for Good Machine, the indie powerhouse. After receiving an MFA in Film Directing from NYU, she worked as an assistant editor, wrote and directed several plays for the New York theater company The Shelter, and directed several short films and music videos, including the 1-hour dramatic TV pilot Takers, which screened at several festivals including Seriesfest (where it won an award for Best Actress in a drama) and the Hoboken Film Festival (where it was nominated for Best Pilot). She has also written a novel, Debt, which was published by Silver Birch Press in 2013 and optioned to be turned into a TV series by Ellen Pompeo's production company Calamity Jane.