Rachel M. Sypniewski is a freelance costume designer and stage manager based in Chicago. In the past 6 years, she has worked with Infamous Commonwealth, Open Eye Theatre, Theatre Entropy, Vitalist Theatre, New Leaf Theatre, the Hypocrits, Tangerine Arts Group, Tantalus Theatre Group, Will Act for Food, the Factory Theatre, Live Bait, Bailiwick, and the Chicago Improv Festival. Rachel is currently a part time teacher at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, the assistant rental manager at Broadway Costumes, Inc. and the production manager for Theatre Entropy. Her education is from Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Ask her about Knox, she loved it! When not working in, around or for the arts, Rachel loves to have BBQ's and picnics with her family and play with her cats, Lucky and Tiny and actually go see theatre pefomances with her wonderful fiance, Robb.