Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez

Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez is a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, organizer, trauma informed facilitator, non-profit whiz, and human living with C-PTSD. Their creative work explores generational cycles, borders and sovereignty through historic inquiry, poetry, and comedy. Their poetry has been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer (2023), Routledge (2024), and Toho Journal (RIP, 2020). Her solo show, She Was A Conquistawhore, received the 2023 New BIPOC Performance Award from Cannonball and has toured across the country from Denver to Rhode Island. They’ve acted, built care practices, and provided research for theater companies across the region including Die Cast, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Power Street Theatre, Delaware Shakespeare, among others. During the day, Rachel serves as a staff member at Spiral Q who uses the power of art to connect people, neighborhoods, and movements to their collective creative force for change. A storyteller in search of healing, Rachel’s work draws from trauma informed care, transformative healing justice, decolonization and abolition. They create worlds of transformation, spaces of truth-telling necessary to reconnect one another to our curiosity.