Rachelle Weiss
Actor | Singer | Dancer
Rachelle Weiss
Actor | Singer | Dancer
Rachelle is an actor, singer, and dancer in her senior year at Stanford University (BA Music, minor in Theater & Performance Studies).
She is currently playing Sally Bowles in a sold-out run of Cabaret at the Elam Theatre, staged by the Stanford Light Opera Company and the Asian-American Theatre Project. Recent projects include Stanford Repertory Theater's staged reading of Verdict, Stanford Theater Laboratory's staging of new play Come Again, and Stanford's second annual 48 Hour Musical True North.
Other projects from her college years include Ram's Head Theatrical Society's A Chorus Line (Cassie), Stanford Theater Department's devised piece For Now, new play Lines, the inaugural 48 hour musical Still Love, and both the first staged workshop and the NYC developmental reading of new musical Huppet.Â
Rachelle has performed as a guest singer with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and twice in Brandon James Gwinn's A Night at the Piano Bar at the Bing Concert Hall Studio. She is the 2025 recipient of the Rita Taylor Prize for vocal performance (Stanford Department of Music Awards) and is a proud member of the Stanford Improvisers and the Stanford Pole Dance Collective.
Her theatrical ventures off-stage have included work as a vocal director, stage-direction consultant, deviser, improviser, and former board president of the Stanford Light Opera Company.
She grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, and found her love for the theatre playing Brigitta von Trapp in the 2014 International tour of The Sound of Music (Johannesburg dates) at age 10, and Pepper in the first South African tour of Annie at age 13.