Rachel J. Peters writes all manner of works for the stage including: Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera, OPERA America Commissioning Grant recipient), Companionship (Fort Worth Opera), The Wild Beast of the Bungalow with Royce Vavrek (Center for Contemporary Opera), No Ladies in the Lady's Book with Lisa DeSpain (Utah Opera), Steve (Boston Opera Collaborative), and Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden). She is a contributing composer/lyricist to the new generation of the AIDS Quilt Songbook and the librettist for Leanna Kirchoff's Friday After Friday, a 2018 OPERA America Discovery Grant project.