Rebecca Hart is a writer & performer based in NYC. Recent performing credits include the original solo show commission “how to read tarot cards” (The Cell NYC, dir. Chloe Treat), a 3-month residency at the Rockwood Music Hall, and the Public Theatre 2019 National Mobile Unit Tour of SWEAT by Lynn Nottage. Her songs have appeared in How To Break (2014 NAMT, Sprkbox Festival Oslo 2015, Village Theatre 2023), The Civilians’ Rimbaud in NY (BAM) and Let Me Ascertain You (Joe’s Pub), Target Margin Theatre’s Uriel Acosta (Chocolate Factory LIC), Woolly Mammoth’s GLORIA (Best Sound Helen Hayes Co-Nom), and Hard Sparks’ The Cabaret at the End of the World (Best Original Music, NY Innovative Theatre Awards 2017). Written work includes book & lyrics for the musical IRON JOHN: an american ghost story ( NAMT 2019, O’Neill Incubator Residency, Theatreworks Silicon Valley New Works Festival, 2023 Natl Playwriting Foundation ‘Relentless’ Award Nom, Irish Arts Center, Manhattan School of Music, NYU Tisch/NSB.) and libretto for The Barren(s) (Kennedy Center/American Opera Projects; New Opera West ‘Fright Fest’). Her 2018 album The Magician’s Daughter was produced in part by renowned Kentucky songwriter/cellist Ben Sollee. She is an alum of Brown University and NYU’s The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and is an Associate Artist with The Civilians.

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Affiliation: NYU/TISCH