RECENT ADVENTURES

The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Produced by Write Out Loud

"Rachael VanWormer...floats effortlessly from insightful to delusional. It’s a brilliant, tour de force performance ...terrifying, infuriating and heartbreaking."
- Times of San Diego

"VanWormer is captivating...(her) commanding presence slowly and steadily...adds to the tension and a sense of foreboding."
- Broadway World

"VanWormer is stunning...bewitching. (Her) athleticism, emotional range, and detail-oriented nuance... is so striking.
- On The Craft

As You Like It
With New Fortune Theatre Company

VanWormer’s Celia is adorabl(e)...her WTF facial expressions are a hoot. 
- Times of San Diego

Rachael VanWormer underplays with a gentle reserve 
- San Diego Union Tribune

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Rachael was reviewed in The New York Times!

Click HERE (and scroll down a bit)
to read about
Diversionary Theatre's production of Miranda Rose Hall's 
​Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, 
which was canceled due to the COVID 19 shut down.

Pictured: Rachael VanWormer & August Forman

​"...August Forman and Rachael VanWormer, exuded warmth and easy comedy.
​                                                                                                                  ...it was captivating."

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Thanks to the San Diego Magazine for covering local, working actors!
Click the Image below to read the full interview! ​

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"VanWormer, superb as ever, lands a series of difficult moments for Harper, as well as a poetic scene near the end.
- San Diego Union Tribune

​Read a nice feature story on the production HERE.​

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches & Perestroika
by Tony Kushner at Cygnet Theatre

"Rachael VanWormer is wonderful as Harper."
- Times of San Diego

"Rachael VanWormer plays Harper  with a potent mix of humor and manic terror."
- San Diego Union Tribune

" Rachael VanWormer brought...electricity to Harper Pitt."
 - San Diego Story

"VanWormer takes (her) awe-conjuring powers...and strangles them with paranoia and brokenness to great piteous effect."
- San Diego Magazine

"What (the) company have accomplished here is, it has to be said, awe-inspiring. This is just utterly committed and eloquent theater."
- San Diego Union Tribune

SILENT SKY
by Lauren Gunderson at Lambs Players Theatre

" Rachael VanWormer’s endearing performance ... is stunning."
                                                               - San Diego Uptown News

“ 'Sky' hits home ...with Leavitt (in a spirited, sometimes fiery performance by Rachael VanWormer)."
                                                             - San Diego Union Tribune

" Rachael Van Wormer brings a wonderful, awe-struck ebullience to Henrietta, and makes us care for her.... She even makes us listen harder. "
                                                            - Times of San Diego

" VanWormer plays Henrietta with grit and determination... but also with sheer wonder of the universe she is measuring.
Her delight is infectious. "
                                                         - San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

" VanWormer’s performance is intense. On a scale of 1 to 10, her energy seldom dips below an 8, which is thrilling. "
                                                             - San Diego Magazine

" Rachael VanWormer gives Henrietta grand emotional size. ... In a fine, fearless performance, VanWormer rightly shows that, for Henrietta, even a theater is too confining. " 
                                                              - San Diego Reader

" Bravo to Ms. VanWormer ... Her arc ... brought tears to my eyes."
                                                                 - San Diego Jewish Journal

" Rachael VanWormer’s earnestness in the title role is almost otherworldly."
                                                                   - San Diego City Beat

" Rachael VanWormer plays emotionally volatile Charlotte with grace and confidence... VanWormer bravely journeys the emotional arc."
                                                 - San Diego Reader
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THE MYSTERY ​OF
                       LOVE AND SEX
by Bathsheba Doran at Diversionary Theatre

" It’s a showcase for VanWormer’s winning way; the versatile San Diego stage favorite’s committed and physically dynamic performance gives the show its heart."
                                                - San Diego Union Tribune

" VanWormer...sympathetically depicts truths about life."
                                                   - San Diego Story

" Rachael VanWormer takes the biggest social-sexual-emotional journey, and her antic, anxious characterization of Charlotte is superb."
                                                    - Pat Launer, Critics Circle

" Rachael VanWormer is made for the role of Charlotte. She is fidgety, quirky, smart, questioning, possessive, pushy, loving and demanding...perfection."​
​                                                        - San Diego Jewish Journal

WHEN THE RAIN
​                 STOPS FALLING
by Andrew Bovell at Cygnet Theatre

" Rachael VanWormer is achingly torn (as) Gabrielle."
                                            - San Diego Reader

" Rachael VanWormer is splendid. "
                                              - San Diego Story

​" Rachael VanWormer, as younger Gabrielle York, is absolutely immersed in the character. "
                                              - La Jolla Light

"...a sterling cast..."
                                             - San Diego Gay & Lesbian News

HAY FEVER and THE VORTEX
by Noel Coward
​performed in rotating repertory at Cygnet Theatre

" Rachael VanWormer has expanded her range exponentially... her Sorel Bliss is as mindlessly sycophantic as her Bunty is oddly bright and cheerful."
- San Diego Story

" ...versatile Rachael VanWormer..."
- San Diego Reader

" ... an outstanding ensemble, each providing expert character delineation. It’s a sheer delight. " 
- Times of San Diego
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"...a sterling cast...VanWormer storms and seethes through the scenes with a sprightly sophistication."
- Scene by Jenni Prisk

FADED GLORY
by Timothy Burns at North Coast Repertory Theatre

" Rachael VanWormer ...adroitly displayed both a hard-as-nails exterior and an appealingly soft core, the latter of which she effectively revealed in a flashback..."
- Broadway World

" Rachael VanWormer shines."
- Center Stage, KSDS

" Rachael VanWormer plays two characters, most hilariously the proto-feminist portraitist."
- San Diego Uptown News 

OLEANNA
by David Mamet at Intrepid Theatre

" I've seen three or four versions of (OLEANNA)...This staging is by far the... best acted... VanWormer is excellent, making a major leap from lost soul to the new definer on the block."
- San Diego Reader

"The entire 80 minutes is fraught with exquisite tension and left this viewer speechless... two perfect actors for this 'boxing match'." 
- San Diego Jewish World

" Gercke and VanWormer are excellent...two fine actors at the top of their form."
- San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

 "...a very solid performance by Rachael VanWormer..."
- Center Stage, KSDS