Rachel “La Loca” Strauss is an Actor, Producer, Writer, Podcaster, VO Artist and Adjunct Professor.

She is Host of the two-time WEBBY Award nominated and four-time Signal Award WINING Podcast, Latinos Out Loud. She’s recorded over four hundred and forty episodes she’s featured notable guests on the show, like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dasha Polanco, Eugenio Derbéz, Genesis Rodriguez and many more.

These days she also teaches Podcasting and Media Operations at the college level for the City University of New York and Five Towns College. She is in season four production of “The Tuttle Twins”, where she voices the role of “Mrs. Tuttle” on the animated series, available on Amazon and on the Angel Studios app. Her voiceover work can also be heard on “La Cabina Telefónica“, a Spotify Original, as well as in “Michelle Rojas is Not Okay“, an Audible/Broadway Video podcast. 

Rachel is a member of the IADAS (International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences) where she serves as a judge for the WEBBY and Signal Awards.  She is also a member of The Podcast Academy and a Blue-Ribbon judge for The Ambies, as well as a member of ECCO (Entertainment Creative Collaborative Outreach) Program; where she was invited by the US Senate and The White House to DC to help bring needed attention to key issues and initiatives that will have a positive impact on the national, regional and local levels via public policy, civic engagement, and legislation. 

You may have seen her on screen in a national commercial for Ozempic, or when she was profiled on the series “From Performers to Spectators“ streaming now on PBS or maybe when she performed on “Bring the Funny” streaming on NBC and Peacock. Rachel also played a principal role in season 2 of crime reenactment show, “Diabolical” (ID Network). 

Her feature film debut as an actress in “Superblocked“ premiered at the Warner Media Latino Film Festival and the film won Best Feature at The Official Latino Film Festival. Her writing was selected writer for the National Hispanic Media Coalition‘s LatinX Stream Showcase, where her short film, “The Swimmers” premiered. The dramedy about a Latino couple facing their infertility fears was also featured in the Official Latino Film Festival, Dominican Film Festival and The Glass Ceiling Breakers Film Festival.

Her one-woman show, “Ink” was a featured selection in The ONE Theatre Festival. Rachel is featured on Coverfly‘s 2022 Next List of Writers and is an American Express and Luminary Fellowship recipient. She‘s won a NYC Indie Film Festival Award for producing ‘’Latino Vortex“ a short directed by Oz Rodriguez.

Rachel is Creator/Producer of The HERlarious Show, an all-female variety show featuring the funniest females in sketch, improv, stand-up and musical comedy. The comedy collective has also performed at The Toronto Sketch Fest, Philadelphia Sketch Fest, Knockouts Women’s Comedy Fest and the New York Comedy Festival. She wrote and rapped in music video parody--“Pregnant Queen”, which was featured on Comedy Central and has garnered over 1.6 Million YouTube views to-date. 

She produces custom content for brands like Warner Brothers, The U.S. Census Bureau, Wendy‘s, Frito Lay, McDonalds, Dior Beauty and Latina.com. Rachel produced “El Profeta de la Salúd”, a six-part web series for the non-profit organization, SOMOS. Her character work can also be seen on “Gente of Thrones” (Buzz Feed), a “Game of Thrones” parody.

She has an extensive corporate background in marketing, having held positions at brands like Latina, People en Español and Heineken USA. Rachel has her Bachelor’s degree and is a two-time recipient of The Upright Citizen’s Brigade Diversity Scholarship where she studied improv, character development and sketch comedy writing. She‘s also studied privately with several acting coaches.

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