Rachel Raimist is an American episodic television director.
Raimist was born and raised in Middletown, New York in Orange County. She attended Middletown High School where at the urging of teacher Fred Isseks, she made the documentary Garbage, Gangsters and Greed. [1]
The feature documentary Middletown follows Isseks and his students, including Raimist, and is directed by Emmy and Sundance-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine. Middletown premieres at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. [2]
Raimist attended the UCLA School of Film and Television where she earned a bachelor's degree in film and television production and a MFA in directing. Raimist returned to graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2002. She earned a Master of Arts in women's studies and a Ph.D. in feminist studies with a minor in American studies in 2010.
In 2009, the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis named The Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center in her honor, for her work building gender infused gender curriculum, community events, teaching and mentorship of students to develop as digital storytellers and feminist filmmakers. [3]
Raimist has directed numerous hours of television, with credits in drama, action, sci-fi, musicals and comedy.
Year | Show | Episode Title | Role |
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2018 | Queen Sugar | Your Passages Have Been Paid | Director |
2019 | Greenleaf | Did I Lose You | Director |
2019-2021 | Roswell, New Mexico | Say It Ain't So; Killing Me Softly With His Song; Bittersweet Symphony | Director |
2019-2020 | Nancy Drew | The Secret of the Solitary Scribe | Director |
2021 | The Republic of Sarah | From Simple Sources; Pledge Allegiance | Director |
2021 | Diary of a Future President | Swing State | Director |
2021 | The Sex Lives of College Girls | That Comment Tho | Director |
2021 | Wu-Tang: An American Saga | Saturday Nite | Director |
2021-2023 | Fantasy Island | Dia de los Vivos; Paymer vs. Paymer | Director |
2021 | The Big Leap | Nothing but Money Shots | Director |
2021 | 4400 | If You Love Something | Director |
2021 | Queens | Bars | Director |
2022 | Wild Life [4] | Pilot | Director and EP |
2022-2023 | CSI: Las Vegas | When the Dust Settles | Director |
2023 | Sex/Life | The Weakness in Me | Director |
2023 | Up Here | Baggage | Director |
2024 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | A Midsummer's Daydream | Director |
2024 | Bel-Air | Gimme a Break | Director |
2024 | Elsbeth | Gold, Frankincense & Murder | Director |
Raimist is active in leadership at the Directors Guild of America where she was the first appointed to co-chair the Disability Committee [5] and the first woman appointed to Co-chair The Special Projects Committee. [6]
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