Rachael Horovitz

Rachael Horovitz is an American film producer.

Horovitz is the daughter of playwright Israel Horovitz and the late painter Doris (née Keefe), and the sister of the musician Adam Horovitz. Her father is Jewish, and her mother, who was of Irish descent, was Catholic. She is the partner of British television executive Michael Jackson, with whom she has twin sons and lives in New York City.

Raised in Greenwich Village, Horovitz graduated from Phillips Academy Andover, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, she lived in Paris where, at the suggestion of family friend playwright Samuel Beckett, she went to work at Shakespeare and Co. bookstore on the Left Bank. Following her return to New York, she worked in Mayor Edward I. Koch’s administration as an assistant to Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern.

Horovitz began working in film in 1985 when she was hired to work at Dino De Laurentiis Productions in publicity. While at the company, she worked on campaigns for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Michael Cimino’s The Sicilian and Roman Polanski’s Pirates, among other films.

In 1988 she began producing short works by young playwrights such as Kenneth Lonergan and Jon Robin Baitz at NY’s Naked Angels theatre company, and also produced the Rushmore Festival, known for its commissions of new American translations of classical plays. During her tenure, Rushmore commissioned and produced the award-winning Paul Schmidt translation of The Cherry Orchard which had its premiere at the festival. Horovitz’s film projects at that time included developing screenplays with emerging writer/directors Lonergan, Noah Baumbach, and Brad Anderson. In 1990, Horovitz produced her first feature, Larry Fessenden’s No Telling. She also developed and co-produced Anderson’s Next Stop Wonderland.

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