Rachel Ganz is a playwright and essayist. As a writer living with mental illness and blindness, she often writes stories to illuminate an alienated point of view. She is a playwriting alumnus from the National Theatre School of Canada as well as the 2015 recipient of the Sybil Cooke Award for her play The Dumb War. Her plays Plucked, Vacuum and The Queen’s Eulogy have been celebrated by niche audiences across Toronto.