Rachel Burttram

Rachel Burttram has spent more than 25 years in American regional theatre as an actor, director, teacher, and arts administrator. Trained at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has worked in theatres across the country and knows what it takes to build a life on the stage: not just long rehearsals and closing nights but the everything in between that only working blue collar artists know.

A Birmingham kid who found her way home, Rachel now teaches acting and directing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, where she shares her love of the craft with the next generation of artists. She is Vice Chair of the Professional Division of the Alabama Conference of Theatre and a 2025 Individual Artist Fellow with the Alabama State Council on the Arts. When she's not in a rehearsal room, she's in her garden, at home with her husband, actor Brendan Powers, and their cat, Oscar T Wilde.