Rachelle is an actor, singer, and dancer studying music and theatre at Stanford University.

She recently performed in Stanford Repertory Theater's staged reading of Verdict and in Stanford Theater Laboratory's workshop production of new play Come Again. 

In the new year she will play Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Elam Theatre, staged by the Stanford Light Opera Company and the Asian-American Theatre Project.

Other favourite projects 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 the first staged workshop and NYC developmental reading of new musical Huppet. 

Rachelle is the 2025 recipient of the Rita Taylor Prize for vocal performance (Stanford Department of Music Awards) and a proud member of the Stanford Improvisers and the Stanford Pole Dance Collective.

Her theatrical ventures in college have included work as a vocal director, direction consultant, deviser, improviser, and former 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.