Rachel Damon served as the Artistic Director of the Chebeague Children's Theatre for fifteen years. She began acting with CCT in 1989 at the age of 6. Her first role was that of a Lost Boy in Peter Pan. Over the course of her career, Rachel has directed over 60 plays (including works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, George Kaufman, David Ives, Christopher Durang, Jose Rivera, Steve Martin, Arthur Kopit) and musicals (including The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, 42nd Street, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Into The Woods, Oliver, Annie, The Music Man, Return to the Forbidden Planet and more) with actors ranging in age from 6-80. She directed the Ohio premier of "Bye Bye Birdie YPE" and one of the first productions of "The Lion King, Junior." She has experience with stage management, costuming, improvisation, lighting, sound, scenic design and construction, costuming, improvisation, theatre history, dramaturgy, puppetry, tap, and choreography. Rachel Damon graduated magna cum laude from Colby College in Waterville, Maine with a B.A. in American Studies and Theatre and Dance. While at Colby, she studied abroad in London and worked with professors from the Central London School of Speech and Drama, Regents College, Goldsmiths College, and the Head of Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. She also had the opportunity to intern with the head of the Education Department at the National Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. Rachel has taught drama, musical theatre, technical theatre, acting, speech and film to students K-12 at independent schools in Massachusetts, Texas, Maine and Ohio for the last 8 years. She created the theatre curriculum and wrote the scope and sequence for a K-12 school in Texas and a 9-12 school in Maine. Rachel is currently a Drama Specialist at The Stamford American International School in Singapore.