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Rebecca Wear is a freelance director, dramaturg, and educator currently based in Southern California (previously New York). Rebecca makes work about the things we don't know how to talk about; she gravitates towards culturally specific pieces that distill big ideas about identity and politics into compelling interpersonal relationships. To mine this complexity, she often collaborates with musicians and composers, choreographers and dancers, and surrounding/repurposed geography. |
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Rebecca's directing has been seen at Actor's Express, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, HERE Arts Center, Greenway Court, UC Santa Barbara, Women's Center Stage, and other theatres and various site specific locations including Pyramid Hill Sculpture Garden and Metro Baptist Church. She has associate directed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Arena Stage. She was an Artistic Associate at The Orchard Project, held fellowships and internships at Center Theatre Group, The Public's Literary department, Clubbed Thumb, and is now a resident director in Los Angeles' Hero Theatre.
Currently, she is part of the 5th cohort of the National Directors Fellowship, supported by the O'Neill Theatre Center, the National New Play Network, SDC, and the Kennedy Center. Supported by the UC Critical Refugees Studies Collective, Rebecca and playwright Lisa Dring are traveling to the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to research and co-create a play on climate change, sacred space, WWII ghosts, and indigenous female shamans.
In addition to her freelance directing work, she is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara. She has previously studied in Taiwan, traveled with a Communist theatre troupe in India, lived and trained in Thai massage in a hippie commune, and continues to search for an adoptable hypoallergenic pup...so let her know if you have any leads!
Currently, she is part of the 5th cohort of the National Directors Fellowship, supported by the O'Neill Theatre Center, the National New Play Network, SDC, and the Kennedy Center. Supported by the UC Critical Refugees Studies Collective, Rebecca and playwright Lisa Dring are traveling to the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) to research and co-create a play on climate change, sacred space, WWII ghosts, and indigenous female shamans.
In addition to her freelance directing work, she is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara. She has previously studied in Taiwan, traveled with a Communist theatre troupe in India, lived and trained in Thai massage in a hippie commune, and continues to search for an adoptable hypoallergenic pup...so let her know if you have any leads!
