Professional Bio

Rebecca Nesvet is a multiple-award-winning, internationally produced playwright with a particular interest in science-informed drama. Rebecca’s first experience of recognition as an artist was receiving First Place in the NASA and the National Science Teachers’ Association’s award for secondary school artists’ explorations of controversies in space science.

She is currently working on a science-history-informed play, The Seer of Little Worlds, for Ensemble Studio Theatre, as part of the EST/Sloan Initiative. She also is currently under commission with Merkavah Theatre (London) and a project involving the Boston-based Irish actor Derry Woodhouse.

Recent stagings of her plays include The Shape Shifter (Thorny Theater, Palm Springs, 2007), The Girl in the Iron Mask (Babes With Blades, Chicago, 2007, The Georgetown Theatre Co., 2008) and readings at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Romania), Hampstead Theater (London), Public Theater (New York), and Kennedy Center (Washington 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 Sloan Grant competition. Rebecca earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University, where she won a Sloan Writing Grant, an Alumnae Club Merit Scholarship, a Department of Dramatic Writing Screenplay Award and, upon graduation, the Department Chair’s Award.

Rebecca is employed as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire, in England, where she lives. She also 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.

Expertise & Interest Descriptors

playwriting, theatre, public understanding of science, aerospace, astronomy, gender, anatomy, science history, history of ideas, museums, ecology, scientific ethics, technological fiction, steampunk, cyborg, artificial intelligence, optics

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