About Rachel Axler
Rachel Axler is a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she received the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program, and a 2007 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nomination.
As a playwright, Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark Play Development Center. Her newest play, SMUDGE, has had readings at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Magic Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center and The Playwrights Foundation. She wrote the screenplay for a short musical film, 11, produced by Raw Impressions. Humor pieces of hers have been published in The New York Times, the journal In Character (ed. Mark Oppenheimer),McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and two editions of Monologues for Women, By Women, and can be found on bathroom walls across the country.
She received her BA in Theatre and English from Williams College, and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Proud member, Writers Guild of America, Dramatists Guild.