Rachel Eskin Fisher
Rachel Eskin Fisher
Rachel Eskin Fisher is a filmmaker and screenwriter who writes about people with marginalized identities navigating the intersections of their personal and political lives, with a focus on people in past times. She holds an MFA in Television Writing & Production from the TV Writers Studio of Long Island University and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She co-produced and directed the film Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent. The documentary is about the rabbi who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington, Joachim Prinz, who came to America in 1937 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Rachel’s screenplay Miss Perkins is about Frances Perkins, who became Labor Secretary in 1933. As the first woman cabinet secretary in US history, Perkins had to take care of her mentally ill husband and hide her loving partnership with Mary Harriman while convincing FDR to undertake the New Deal. As a James Weldon Johnson Fellow, Rachel will be working on her next television pilot, about the friendship, feminism, and passions of three women suffrage activists in the 1910s: Grace Nail Johnson, Marie Howe, and Rose Pastor Stokes. Rachel lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband, Dan Fisher. They are the proud parents of two high school and college-age sons.