Theresa Rebeck
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Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen, television, and radio writer. She has also written a novel, "Three Girls and Their Brother," which will be published by Random House in early 2008.
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.
In an article in the New York Times in September, 2007, she said that her plays were about "betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior."
[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:
Full Length
- Mauritius (2007)
- The Scene (2006)
- The Water’s Edge (2006)
- The Bells (2005)
- Omnium Gatherum (2003) (Co-Written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros)
- Bad Dates (2003)
- Dollhouse (2000)
- The Butterfly Collection (2000)
- Abstract Expression (1998)
- View of the Dome (1996)
- Sunday on the Rocks (1994, Final version - 1996)
- The Family Of Mann (1994)
- Loose Knit (1992)
- Spike Heels (1990, Final version - 1992)
One Acts
- Mary, Mother of God, Intercede for Us (2006)
- Aftermath (2005)
- Off Base (2005)
- How We Get to Where We're Going (2004)
- Train to Brooklyn (2003)
- Deliver Me (2003)
- The Actress (2002)
- Art Appreciation (2002)
- Funeral Play (2001)
- Josephina (2001)
- First Day (2000)
- Walk (1999)
- Great To See You (1998)
- The Contract (1997)
- Katie and Frank (1996)
- Does This Woman Have a Name? (1993)
- What We Are Up Against (1992)
- Candy Heart (1992)
- Drinking Problem (1991)
- Big Mistake (1991)
- Sex With The Censor (1990)
- The Bar Plays (1990)
[edit] Film
Her work as a screenwriter (or story writer) includes:
- Catwoman
- Gossip
- Harriet the Spy
[edit] References
[edit] Books
- Rebeck, Theresa (1999), Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays Volume I 1989 - 1998 (1st ed.), A Smith & Kraus Book, ISBN 1-57525-172-8
- Rebeck, Theresa (2007), Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays Volume II 1999 - 2007 (1st ed.), A Smith & Kraus Book, ISBN 1-57525-444-1
- Rebeck, Theresa (2007), Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays Volume III Short Plays 1989 - 2005 (1st ed.), A Smith & Kraus Book, ISBN 1-57525-447-6
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- 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
- [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=76610
- [1] An Acute Interest in Bad Behavior, The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2007.