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Rebecca's work that you can see now or soon:
The Castle of Urania
(performance art short piece)
16 July 2009
in Temple of Nothing's show Women Are Revolting! at the Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter, England.
Revolutions Per Minute
(rehearsed reading)
5 November 2009
by The Group at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, in London, England.
Rebecca Nesvet
is an internationally produced playwright and a 2008 graduate of the New York University MFA in Dramatic Writing. Her recently staged full-length plays include productions of The Girl in the Iron Mask (Babes With Blades, Chicago, 2007, The Georgetown Theatre Co, 2008) and The Shape Shifter (Thorny Theater, CA, 2007) and readings at the Sibiu Int'l Theatre Festival (Romania), Hampstead Theater (London), Public Theater (New York), & Kennedy Center (DC).
Dramatic writing awards include First Place in the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) Playworks, First Place in the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Competition, Second Place in Sonoma County Rep's playwriting competition and Finalist in the Magic Theatre's Alfred P. Sloan rewrite grant competition. She also won a Sloan Writing Grant for her screenplay A Habitable World, about the tragicomic endeavour that science historian Allan Chapman has called the "Jacobean space program."
Rebecca is employed as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and serves as Literary Manager of New York's Origin Theatre Company, which produces North American premieres of plays by contemporary European emerging and established playwrights.
Above Left: "The Castle of Urania", DC Swan Day 2009. Above Right: "Girl...Mask", The Georgetown Theatre Company, DC, 2008. Photo by Bob Morrison. Below: Galileo in the Underworld, Vital Theatre, New York, 2003. Photo by Vital.
