Rachel Mutombo is an award-winning Actor and Writer. She is a first generation Canadian of Congolese (DRC) descent. Her experience of growing up as a child of immigrants combined with her experience of living at the intersection of race and gender heavily influences her work as an artist. She was featured on CBC’s The Filmmakers to discuss her opinions on Kim Nguyen’s film REBELLE (War Witch).

Rachel is an acting graduate of John Abbott College Professional Theatre as well as the National Theatre School of Canada. While at NTS she founded the Artists for Inclusion/Artistes Pour l’Inclusion when there was a need for students to have more safe spaces for marginalized voices at the school.

As a freelance writer, Rachel has had essays and articles published by CBC, Intermission Magazine and ByBlacks. She was part of the 2020 cohort of The Bedrock Creators’ Initiative at Factory Theatre developing her play VIERGE, which premiered at Factory in 2023. VIERGE was awarded the Kevin Tierney Prize for first place in Infinitheatre’s annual playwriting competition; the jury stated that Rachel is “…one of the most exciting, original voices to come out of Canadian theatre in many years”. She also won the 2022 PGC Tom Hendry TYA Award of her play HOMEROOM, in development with YPT, as well as the 2023 Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund Award for Young Canadian Playwright.

Rachel is the recipient of the inaugural IBPOC Commission from Persephone Theatre for her play WAKE, and was part of the 21/22 Playwrights Unit at Obsidian Theatre.