Rachelle Dart is a performer, theatre maker, traditional storyteller and teaching artist currently residing in Phoenix, Arizona. She is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and is passionate about safe stage violence in education and performance. She performs and teaches improvisational comedy and directed local troupe, The Penguin Player, for four year as they lovingly embraced fear and failure. In 2016, she co-founded Small Dance Collective, a physical theatre company that is grounded in the celebration of process and community stories. She apprenticed in the craft of storytelling with Irish storyteller Liz Weir, MBE together they received the J.J. Reneaux Mentorship Award from the National Storytelling Network. Rachelle graduated from Arizona State University earning a Bachelors in Theatre with a Concentration in Acting and she is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®.