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Rachel Wenitsky is a writer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Formerly, she work as the deputy editor at Reductress, where she also co-hosted the podcast Mouth Time! She is also the head writer of The Story Pirates Podcast on Gimlet media. In April 2018 she guest wrote on two episodes of Saturday Night Live. She has also written for multiple ill-fated pilots that she can tell you about in person :)

As a performer, she is one half of the musical comedy duo Friends Who Folk. They perform all over the city and have an album streaming everywhere.

She’s the head writer of and performer on The Story Pirates Podcast.

Rachel has been on *TeLiViSiOn* on The Good Fight and Elementary and Alternatino and was famously cut from the film Luce, starring Naomi Watts.  She also is sometimes in the *tHeAtRe* including the play Song For a Future Generation at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

She has a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and also trained in sketch and improv at UCB if that's something you're into!