RespectAbility’s Entertainment Media Consulting Team
Rachel Handler
Rachel Handler is a writer, producer and actor focused on single-cam comedy and dramedy, and disability inclusive ALWAYS. She has written/produced 8 award-winning short films screening at Slamdance, Hollyshorts, and Heartland. She won the AT&T Underrepresented Filmmaker Award. She’s a self-professed Broadway nerd, with co-stars and guest stars on NCIS: NOLA, Law & Order: SVU, Interview With the Vampire, and New Amsterdam. Rachel is currently pitching her feature script “Hope for the Holidays” and comedy pilot “LAME.”
About RespectAbility’s Entertainment Media Consulting Team
Comprised of diverse people with disabilities, RespectAbility’s entertainment media consultants partner with studios, production companies, writers’ rooms and news organizations to create equitable and accessible opportunities to increase the number of people with lived disability experience throughout the overall story-telling process. Learn more about the team.
