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I Must Win: The Rachel Crane Story
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Pictured is Crane in one of her commercial scenes. She has had six booked commercials in her career thus far. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
When Rachel Crane left the great plains of Kansas for Chicago in 2002, she started her journey into the high stress of live stage shows, commercials and television.At the time, Crane reunited with her lifelong Macksville High School friend Katie Roenbaugh Schwalb, who was working at the Department of Justice in Chicago.Crane started her acting career by taking improv training and acting training at The Second City in Chicago. Second City alumni include Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, John Belushi and Steve Carrell.Improv is mainly about comedy. “It’s the most fun, liberating form of comedy.