Rae Binstock

Background

About Rae Binstock

Rae Binstock grew up in Cambridge, MA. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University, where she was mentored by David Henry Hwang and Ellen McLaughlin. Her plays include That Heaven’s Vault Should Crack (The New Group, Lark Development Center, T. Schreiber’s Studios), land of no mercy (Landing Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, Princess Grace finalist), Consequences (Stella Adler’s Playwrights Division, Jane Chambers Award finalist), and WALKERS (The Shelter, O’Neill Conference semifinalist, Jerome Fellowship finalist) and her work has been produced and developed as part of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Jewish Plays Project, and the Fresh Fruit Festival, among others. Rae’s pilot Homecoming was selected for the 2020 WriteHer List and featured as a Script Summit Official Selection, and she is a two-time semifinalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab. Rae is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a Rita Goldberg Playwrights Workshop Fellow at the Lark, Emerging Artist Fellow at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow from The New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been awarded numerous residencies, including Tyrone Guthrie, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, PLAYA Summer Lake, and the Ragdale Foundation. Rae served as the Writers’ Assistant on both FX Networks’ FOSSE/VERDON and Apple TV’s upcoming shows Schmigadoon and IF/THEN. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her cat, Black Cat. Rae is represented by Allison Schwartz and Zac Simmons (Paradigm Talent Agency).