Theresa Rebeck

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Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen, television, and radio writer.

She was born in Kenwood, Ohio (part of the Cincinnati area), and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in 1983, a M.F.A. in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Victorian era melodrama, awarded in 1989.

[edit] Television

For her work on NYPD Blue she was awarded a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and a Writers Guild of America award for Episodic Drama.

• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Third Watch
• Maximum Bob
• Total Security
• American Dreamer
• L.A. Law
• Dream On
• Brooklyn Bridge

[edit] Plays

For her work on Omnium Gatherum (2003), co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She wrote the radio play Ten After Eleven, a play inspired by the circumstances surrounding Kitty Genovese murder, for an April 2005 episode of The Next Big Thing.

Her other work as a playwright includes:

• The Scene (2006)
• The Bells (2005)
• Bad Dates
• The Water’s Edge
• Dollhouse (2000)
• Abstract Expression (1998)
• View of the Dome (1996)
• Sunday on the Rocks (1996)
• The Family Of Mann (1994)
• Loose Knit (1994)
• The Two Orphans (1993)
• Does This Woman Have a Name?(1993)
• Spike Heels (1992)

[edit] Film

Her work as a screenwriter (or story writer) includes:

• Catwoman
• Gossip
• Harriet the Spy

[edit] External links and references

• Biography
• Who's Who entry from Playbill
• Kenwood native delves into criminal mind on Law & Order, a November 2001 article from the Cincinnati Enquirer
• Channeling Theatre: A Chat with Theresa Rebeck, a January 2004 Playbill article
• Her Notre Dame study theatre work in the late 1970s, from the university's website