Rachel Gladstone

Bio:

Rachel Gladstone has taken a rather circuitous route to her present avocation as an author and writer. From the age of five she was educated at The Cleveland Institute of Music in music theory and composition as well as piano and flute. Her love of performing took her from recital halls to the stage, and she soon became a leading player in the professional theatre company Junior Light Opera.  After graduating high school, Rachel moved to Manhattan, where she studied at the Herbert Bergoff Studio and was accepted as an apprentice actor at the Circle In The Square Reparatory Company. But she soon set sail again after her acceptance as a vocal major at the prestigious Eastman School of Music.

Rachel left Eastman in pursuit of a career as a singer-songwriter, traveling and performing throughout Europe before finally settling in Amsterdam. She made numerous radio and TV appearances in Europe before relocating to the San Francisco Bay area where she formed her own band, Full Circle, and toured with legendary musicians like Arlo Guthrie, David Bromberg, John Prine and Louden Wainright III. As a songwriter she had several songs recorded by artist Rosie Flores and others, and Rachel eventually moved to Nashville, TN, where she garnered a #1 Christian Country hit “Above and Beyond” for the band “Midsouth”. During this time she also interviewed celebrities for ABC radio, wrote for Harlan Howard Songs, and was the director of both the Nashville Screenwriters Conference and Nashville’s Fylmz Festival.

As early menopause wreaked havoc on her life, Rachel wrote her first book Could it BE any Hotter in Here? which she self-published and distributed and which will soon be re-released by a small publishing house in California. She has recently completed a novel The Petty Chronicles, which is being shopped for a book deal and is hard at work writing a sequel. Ms Gladstone is also a staff writer for Dish Magazine, where she reviews books in her column "All Booked Up." She has been a contributing writer for The Nashville Scene, Ourselves, and Nashville Lifestyles Magazine, and is currently a writer for Cornerstone Productions, where she is developing a one-hour comedy-drama for television.

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Those intertested in learning more about The Petty Chronicles can contact Rachel at [email protected].