Rachel Hutcheson is an award winning songwriter, writer, actor, and the author of the humorous and whimsical Black Sheep Rebel Girl books.
She graduated with a degree in theatre from Western Michigan University before moving to New York City at 23. While in New York, she studied acting and improvisation at the Actors and Directors Lab and the National Improvisational Theatre. She's acted in more than 100 plays and musicals, and spent more than ten years performing improvisational theatre in New York City and Los Angeles.
Doing improvisational theatre, including making up one-act plays in any genre, making up songs in any style, making up sketches and TV shows all on the spot gave her the ability to find ideas everywhere and to think on her feet. She credits her improvisational training and performing as her first writing class.
While performing in Los Angeles, she began writing stories and songs and eventually moved to Nashville, TN, where she has spent 10 years working on the craft and heart of writing songs. “Songwriting is a special skill. Learning to write songs in Nashville is another level, the best songwriters in the world live here," she says.
In 2014 she won the Country Music Television/Nashville Songwriters Association International Songwriting Contest Listeners’ Choice Award. This small feat got her name and song in Billboard magazine. “Take your wins where you can,” she says. Many of the songs she has written have been recorded by artists and bands in Nashville.
Rachel wrote an evening of monologues about the lives and thoughts of rebel girls which she intends to perform.
She writes a funny and inspirational blog on her website called “The Stuff in My Head” along with a cool and uplifting newsletter. She also completed writing two books of monologues for actors that will be available soon.
Rachel’s first book The Almost True Tales, Thoughts, and Observations of a Lifelong Black Sheep Rebel Girl has received a wonderful response and her second book The Black Sheep Rebel Girl Rises Again: Whimsical Tales and Truthful Lies was a #1 New Release on Amazon.
One of her goals is to encourage others to write and she recently released a series of guided memory books. She created these books with the idea of having her mom share her stories, memories, and advice in a forever format for her family, and with that hope that others will have the chance to have their parents and grandparents stories recorded as well.
Her purpose is to spread love, laughter, creativity, and imagination through her books and works.
Rachel has lived all across the county with her husband Bob, whom she met at a party in college. It was true love. It was love at first sight.