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As a journalist, Rebecca primarily covers culture and religion, and she's interested in examining intersections of theater and politics. Her work often weaves reporting with cultural criticism and a strong first-person narrative. Her arts reporting and essays have been published in The Forward, The New Haven Independent, Alma, and HowlRound Theatre Commons, among other publications. Rebecca is a Yale Journalism Scholar and a fellow of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Critics Institute.
Rebecca also co-wrote a web series with Ihea Inyama and Charlotte Polk and is working on a play. She also writes a newsletter about art-making with a dash of cultural criticism, which you, too, can get in your inbox through Substack.
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Reported Features
Art, Culture & Religion
Will 'His Story: The Musical' make America believe? (May 6, 2023)
Meet the Sleepaway Camp DJ Who Invented 'Coke and Pepsi' (Aug. 21, 2024)
Can 'Show Boat' ever overcome it's racist past? (Jan. 14, 2025)
'At Manhattan 'Mrs. Maisel' takeover, megafans and mealy cookies (April 14, 2023)
Arts Criticism
Theater Reviews
In 'Stereophonic,' the mundane is the stuff of rock legend (Nov. 8, 2023)
After foam plague, something smells like love (Oct. 12, 2023)
In 'Parade,' a tragedy of antisemitism is timely as ever – and it wants you to notice (March 16, 2023)
'Finish the Fight' and Making the Virtual Visceral (Sept. 24, 2020)
Additional Work
Beyond Best Pal (Winner of Yale's Metcalfe Prize)
An essay about growing up with Mary from Merrily We Roll Along – and growing past her
i'm so happy for you!!!!!!
i'm so happy for you!!!!!! is a nine episode comedy web series that Rebecca co-wrote and stars in with Charlotte Polk and Ihea Inyama. It follows four friends from the same college improv group when one makes her Broadway debut as the Bachelorette in The Bachelorette: The Musical (The Bachelorette Musical) a year after graduation, sending the other three into a tailspin and forcing them to reconcile their friendship with their overwhelming jealousy.