Rebecca Wear is a freelance director, dramaturg, and educator currently based in California (previously New York). Switching to the first person... I make work, mostly new work, about the things we don't know how to talk about. Things I love onstage: spectacle, intellect, pageantry, stupidity Things I'm good at onstage: making a lot out of a little, highlighting intersections between specific communities Affiliations and accolades: resident director at HERO Theatre; member of the The National Director's Fellowship 2019 cohort (the O'Neill/NNPN/the Kennedy Center/SDC); and a 2023 finalist for New York Stage and Film's Pfaelzer Award. My work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the UC Critical Refugees Studies Collective, and Ovation Recommended (Los Angeles), Suzi Recommended (Atlanta), and awarded Annual Best of Cincinnati. Fun facts: studied in Taiwan, traveled with a Communist street theatre troupe in India, trained in Thai massage in a hippie commune |
![]() Fun educational facts: mentored Core Company students through the Orchard Project, co-led directing workshops at the Kennedy Center, and currently an Assistant Professor of Directing at UC Santa Cruz. I also hold a PhD from UC Santa Barbara with foci in neoliberalism, Asian diasporas, and feminist Marxist theories of labor.
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