Rachel Sussman

Rachel Sussman is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of The MITTEN Lab, an emerging artist residency program in her native state of Michigan, and The Business of Broadway, an educational venture democratizing commercial producing knowledge. Broadway lead producing credits include: Liberation, Tony and OCC Award-winning Suffs, as well as the Special Tony and Emmy Award winner Alex Edelman's Just For Us (also on HBO). Select Broadway co-producing credits: Parade (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Award); What The Constitution Means To Me (Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist); Prima Facie. Off-Broadway: All Nighter, The Woodsman, ...Spelling Bee, Lightning Rod Special's The Appointment. Additional recent productions include: Laura Benati: Nobody Cares (with Underbelly at Edinburgh Fringe and Boulevard Soho) and Dylan Mulvaney's Day 365 Live! (with Plate Spinner Productions at The Rainbow Room). A former WP Theater Lab Time Warner Foundation Fellow, Rachel was the recipient of the 2018 Prince Fellowship in Creative Producing and recognized by Variety as "10 to Watch on Broadway." She is a University Honors Scholar alumna of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts and NYU Tisch. 

'Mexodus' and 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' are among this year’s Lucille Lortel Award winners.