Rachael W. Shane is an Albany County and Manhattan based puppeteer.

She has performed with Basil Twist (The Rite of Spring, 2013; Sister’s Follies, 2015; Symphonie Fantastique, 2018), Julie Atlas Muz and Matt Fraser (Jack and the Beanstalk, 2017, 2018), Chris Green (Firebird, 2013, 2015), Lake Simons (Carnival of the Animals, 2015–18; The Jewel Casket, 2014) and Roman Paska (The Fall of the House of Usher, MASS MoCA, 2018), as well as multiple projects with Puppet Kitchen. She was part of the interactive theatrical production Pips Island, 2016–17.

She runs an artists’ residency programme, The Freight Project, at Hubbard Hall in upstate New York. She holds a BFA in Drama from the UNC School of the Arts, and participated in the 2018 St. Ann’s Puppet Lab.