Bio
Rebecca Rovezzi is a New England based Director. She is currently in her senior year at Skidmore College where she is earning a Bachelor of Science in Directing where she has also served as the Theater Department’s Special Events and Outreach Director for several years. Rebecca also has experience in Makeup Design and Stage Combat Choreography. She has trained in directing with Frederick Ertl at New York University Tisch School of The Arts and with The SITI Company as a participant in the 2017 Summer Intensive. She has worked on productions at The Portland Fringe Festival, Mixed Company (Great Barrington, MA), and The Manhattan Repertory Theater.
Rebecca Rovezzi
(she/her, sag sun, sag rising, scorpio moon) is a director specializing in the development and creation of joyfully fearless new plays and musicals.
Her work has been described as “stunningly dexterous” and “the most touching and romantic use of Smash Mouth’s 1999 hit song “All Star” that you’ve probably ever seen in any context.”
Rebecca is the current Artistic Associate at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, prior to which she developed new work as a member of the artistic staff at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and as a Directing and Dramaturgy Fellow at Portland Stage. A few favorite directing credits include Kate Hamill’s Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Mary Zimmerman’s The Secret in the Wings, Molly Burdick’s Light Green Moss, Holly Hughes’ Clit Notes, and Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.
Bex is drawn to theatrical experiences that don’t fit neatly into specific genres and is always hungry to engage with theater and film that find new ways carry those contradictions. She creates work imbued with devised movement and an intrinsic attention to rhythm that is capable of reflecting multitudes - being both magical and mundane, monstrous and poetic, unsetting and sweet. She especially loves stories the center delightfully ferocious women who take up space without shame, fear, or apology.
Rebecca graduated with a concentration in directing from Skidmore College with a Bachelor of Science in Theater with Honors. She was awarded Margaret Ellen Clifford Memorial Prize in Theater. She has also studied directing with the SITI Company and Frederick Ertl.
In her spare time, Bex is an avid connoisseur of horror films, Love Island, and homemade pasta. She also participates on the script reading teams for The Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab at Rorschach Theater, The Playwright’s Realm, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Up next? Rebecca has been awarded a SDCF Directing Fellowship for the world premiere of Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live & active cultures!) by Julia Izumi at Woolly Mammoth Theatre presented in partnership with New Georges.
Photos by Julianna McGuirl Photography
