Rachel Halpern is a woman in STEM and a man of many hats.

Science and art and tech and teaching and music and pretty lights and poetry and sometimes, chess. But only sometimes.

Trying to learn stuff, make stuff, and with each iteration, become slightly bigger than before.

Summary CV

Lighting Design and Live Lighting

  • UC Follies Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast, Feb 2024

  • The Pacifiers’ Airtight, Alright Album Release Party, Dec 2023

Design for Music Collaborations

  • Soulish (Jun 2024)

  • The Howlin’ Gales (May-Jun 2024)

  • Highlight of the Year (Oct 2023-Present)

  • Yester Daze (Feb 2023-Present)

  • The Young Scones (Feb 2024)

  • The Pacifiers (Dec 2023)

  • Checkout Queens (Feb 2023 - Jun 2023)

  • Oli Guselle (May 2023)

  • Cheez Boyz (Nov 2022-Jun 2023)

Live Performance (in order! since 2022)

  • Queer poetry open mic (throughout)

  • A feature singing a song I wrote at a rooftop queer-punk show

  • Open mic at a Kensington restaurant that had pickles and matzo ball soup

  • A thesis about interactive concerts that doubled as a concert that tripled as a birthday party

  • A surprise opening slot on a bill at a really cute bar with cool bands that I got to play electric guitar & sing next to

  • Open mic at a cute danforth pub with books all on the walls

  • A decade-in-the-making wholesome house show surrounded by friends & family/an excuse to write a mobo love letter

  • Open mic at a poetry book launch by Clown House Art Collective at Tail of the Junction

  • Featured artist at a beautiful & intimate Outer Haven poetry night hosted by the fantastic Paul Edward Costa

  • An inaugural performance at Bar Orwell playing guitar for the queer punk band Chasing Laika

Skills n’ Software

  • TouchDesigner

  • Arduino

  • Onyx

  • ETC GIO

  • Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro)

  • Maya 3D

  • Ableton Live