Founder and Producing Artistic Director,

Rachel May, a New Englander at heart, is a local director, producer and teacher. As co-founder of Synchronicity, Rachel directed Women + War, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Language of Angels, Be Aggressive, References to Salvador Dali Make me Hot, Hard Feelings, Three Sisters, Breath, Boom, One Flea Spare, On the Verge, Hot 'n' Throbbing, 6 Characters in Search of an Author and Marisol. In addition, Rachel's directing work has been seen in and around Atlanta, including Spain and Trouble in Mind (Actor's Express); Floyd Collins and Children of a Lesser God (Aurora Theatre); Our Country's Good (Theatre Gael); Shooting Simone (Dad's Garage); Zoo Story and Brilliant Traces (Actor's Express SE Tour) and The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock (UGA).

Most recently, Rachel was selected as a recipient of the prestigious NEA/TCG Career Development Program. In 2001, Rachel was also selected as Creative Loafing's Best Director. In addition to being an active teacher and workshop leader around Atlanta, Rachel spends her summers as the director of the Ferst Center's Drama Camp at Georgia Tech.

Founder

Hope Mirlis is a native New Yorker, who has spent the past 15 years in Atlanta acting, dancing and choreographing. Recent Synchronicity credits include playing Daisy in The Sex Habit of American Women and Turtle/Bird in A Year with Frog & Toad.  She was also one of the writers and performed in last season's Women + War.  Hope is an active stage and commercial actress with credits including Scana Energy, Home Depot and Austin Snack Crackers. Favorite stage roles around Atlanta include Pepper in Pulp and Reggie Fluty in The Laramie Project (Actor's Express), Mrs. Grace in A Man of No Importance, Dabby Bryant in Our Country's Good (Theatre Gael), Margarethe in Copenhagen (7 Stages), and Mrs. Shin in Good Person of Szechwan (Theater Emory).

Hope was voted Creative Loafing's Best Choreographer - Reader's Choice in 2000 and her dances have been seen at The Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Dad's Garage, The New American Shakespeare Tavern, Actor's Express and Synchronicity. After receiving a BA in Theater Studies from Emory University in 1993, she was awarded the Alice N. Benston Prize for Excellence in 1999 to honor her continued commitment and passion for theater.

Founder

Michele Pearce served as the script director for Women + War, and most recently directed Synchronicity's production of The Sex Habits of American Women. Other directing projects for Synchronicity include Slide Glide the Slippery Slope by Kia Corthron, Lobster Alice by Kira Obolensky (named one of the top ten theatre events of 2003 by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Fall by Bridget Carpenter, Stop Kiss by Diana Son and Dream of a Common Language by Heather McDonald. Michele also directed and adapted the company's first full-scale production, Aphra Behn's The Feigned Courtesans, at Emory's Black Rose Theatre.

While living in New York City, Michele directed at theatres including NADA, the Directors Company, The Open Eye: New Stagings, the Tiny Mythic Theatre, Alice's Fourth Floor and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Michele is a former Associate Editor of American Theatre magazine.