
Biography
- Areas Of Focus
Rebecca Wright is a director-creator, and a founding company member of Applied Mechanics, with whom she has created over a dozen original immersive works, most recently the science fiction epic Other Orbits. Other favorite projects include Indecent, The Hobbit, Backing Track, Pinocchio, Red Riding Hood (the Arden), Perfect Day and Spiritual Experience (The Private Theater), Always the Hour (Annie Wilson), Articles of Faith (Cynthia Hopkins), Wig Wag (Emily Bate), Close Music for Bodies (Michael Kiley), Head Over Heels (Theatre Horizon), Peaceable Kingdom (Orbiter 3), and her own adaptation of The Wild Duck (Quintessence Theater Group). Rebecca has worked with students at the University of the Arts, University of Minnesota, Arcadia University, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan. She has contributed writing to publications by TCG, Ecotone, Routledge, and Haymarket. She is a two-time recipient of the Independence Fellowship in the Arts and a 2024 Pew Fellow.