Rainbow Underhill
- Actress
- Music Department
- Writer
Rainbow Underhill is an American actress, singer, composer and performance artist. She is of mixed decent, including Mexican and Caucasian. Conceived in a tipi and born in Petaluma, California, Rainbow began her interest in acting as an adolescent, when accompanying her father on his lighting design gigs in San Francisco theater. Rainbow graduated from Sir Francis Drake High School and attended College of Marin, before relocating to Los Angeles. Rainbow was a member of American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory. She holds a BFA in acting from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Rainbow's most recent work in film includes the short film An American Dream set in the 1960's where she plays the assistant to the founder of Habitat for Humanity.
Also (released 2020), is her role in the Indy comedy film, "Hollywood Fringe (2020);" in this film, two married, down-on-their-luck actors produce a site-specific play about their unsuccessful life in Hollywood, as, to their surprise, their failed attempts to 'make it' in the industry take a turn for success and gain momentum. Directed and written by Wyatt McDill and Megan Huber, world premiere at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles, 2020.
Stage Performance: Rainbow made her professional stage debut at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco as Fanchette in the A.C.T. production of The Marriage of Figaro (dir. Richard E.T. White). Additional early career roles include: Lady Mortimer in Henry IV parts 1 and 2, (dir. James Dunn), Ophelia in Guerrilla Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet (dir. Jeanne Samuelson) and Shakespeare Festival/LA's, The Tempest (dir. Andrew Tsao). where she played Ariel. Other Shakespeare Festival/LA productions include Hauntings (dir. Tom O'Horgan), at the Pacific Design Center, produced by Ben Donenberg and co-starring Eugene Burger, Kay Cole, Aaron Mendelson, and Ryun Yu.
Other stage work include roles with Zoo District theatre in The Bloody Chamber, (dir. Kara Feely), and in their LA Weekly award nominated production of [Home], (dir. Gleason Bauer). Rainbow played Dr. Tsu in The Defenders at Inside at the Ford Amphitheater, (dir. Brian Frette) which toured to San Francisco for the Fools' Fury Theater Festival, co-starring Christine Deaver, Robert Farrior, D.H. Finch, Brian Frette, Garret McKechnie, Kristi Schultz, Joe Seely, Jerri Tubbs, and Kelly Van Kirk. She also acted in Michael Franco's production of 365 Plays 365 Days (dir. Jon Kellam), also at the Ford Amphitheater.
Singing: Rainbow has also led an active singing career, most recently performing in Ojai sharing the stage with Ewan McGregor, Melissa Disney and Ragnar Rosinkranz at the EPIC International Summit. With her band, Black Cat Gallery, performance locations include the Regent Theater, UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, the Continental Gallery and on The Search for the Next Elvira (2007) reality television show.
Over the years venues Rainbow sang and performed at include the HollyMatter Gallery, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Black Cat Gallery and with Microtonalist Composer Kraig Grady's Anaphorian Shadow Theater. She also sang for the BGH Gallery opening at Bergamot Station.
Rainbow's Performance Art includes: LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art): Rainbow performed in Brody Condon's "Line-Up (After Tricia)," a two-day live performance run and subsequent filming in the round, which provides the projected backdrop for LACMA's Stark Bar. MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Liz Glynn's "1. On The Destruction of the Crystal Palace (Museum on Fire)," with music by Corey Fogel, co-performer Octavio Perez. "All The Arms We Need__A Dinner Party in Three Acts" with Corey Fogel, co-performer.
Rainbow's most recent work in film includes the short film An American Dream set in the 1960's where she plays the assistant to the founder of Habitat for Humanity.
Also (released 2020), is her role in the Indy comedy film, "Hollywood Fringe (2020);" in this film, two married, down-on-their-luck actors produce a site-specific play about their unsuccessful life in Hollywood, as, to their surprise, their failed attempts to 'make it' in the industry take a turn for success and gain momentum. Directed and written by Wyatt McDill and Megan Huber, world premiere at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles, 2020.
Stage Performance: Rainbow made her professional stage debut at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco as Fanchette in the A.C.T. production of The Marriage of Figaro (dir. Richard E.T. White). Additional early career roles include: Lady Mortimer in Henry IV parts 1 and 2, (dir. James Dunn), Ophelia in Guerrilla Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet (dir. Jeanne Samuelson) and Shakespeare Festival/LA's, The Tempest (dir. Andrew Tsao). where she played Ariel. Other Shakespeare Festival/LA productions include Hauntings (dir. Tom O'Horgan), at the Pacific Design Center, produced by Ben Donenberg and co-starring Eugene Burger, Kay Cole, Aaron Mendelson, and Ryun Yu.
Other stage work include roles with Zoo District theatre in The Bloody Chamber, (dir. Kara Feely), and in their LA Weekly award nominated production of [Home], (dir. Gleason Bauer). Rainbow played Dr. Tsu in The Defenders at Inside at the Ford Amphitheater, (dir. Brian Frette) which toured to San Francisco for the Fools' Fury Theater Festival, co-starring Christine Deaver, Robert Farrior, D.H. Finch, Brian Frette, Garret McKechnie, Kristi Schultz, Joe Seely, Jerri Tubbs, and Kelly Van Kirk. She also acted in Michael Franco's production of 365 Plays 365 Days (dir. Jon Kellam), also at the Ford Amphitheater.
Singing: Rainbow has also led an active singing career, most recently performing in Ojai sharing the stage with Ewan McGregor, Melissa Disney and Ragnar Rosinkranz at the EPIC International Summit. With her band, Black Cat Gallery, performance locations include the Regent Theater, UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, the Continental Gallery and on The Search for the Next Elvira (2007) reality television show.
Over the years venues Rainbow sang and performed at include the HollyMatter Gallery, the Pacific Asia Museum, the Black Cat Gallery and with Microtonalist Composer Kraig Grady's Anaphorian Shadow Theater. She also sang for the BGH Gallery opening at Bergamot Station.
Rainbow's Performance Art includes: LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art): Rainbow performed in Brody Condon's "Line-Up (After Tricia)," a two-day live performance run and subsequent filming in the round, which provides the projected backdrop for LACMA's Stark Bar. MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Liz Glynn's "1. On The Destruction of the Crystal Palace (Museum on Fire)," with music by Corey Fogel, co-performer Octavio Perez. "All The Arms We Need__A Dinner Party in Three Acts" with Corey Fogel, co-performer.
