REBECCA BREWER
Rebecca is an actor, writer and theatre maker originally from Derbyshire. She was an Associate Artist at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 2020-2021, and a recipient of the prestigious MGC Futures Bursary for 2021.
In 2021, Rebecca was commissioned by the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Creative Estuary to create Tales from the Thames with co-writers Vickie Donoghue and folk musician MG Boulter. The sold-out show toured non-traditional spaces in Essex including a pub, a working men’s club, a few village halls and a barn.
Her play Foot, about 3 teenagers in rural Derbyshire who discover a disembodied foot in the woods, was a finalist for New Perspectives’ Open Pitch in 2018, and her one-woman piece The Escape, an audio piece about going missing was a finalist for In Good Company’s ‘Take Off’ new writing award in 2019.
Rebecca is currently working on Coven, a musical about the Pendle Witch Trials (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and folk singer/songwriter Daisy Chute); a new play about trespass; and a sensory show for babies under two and their families.
As an actor, Rebecca has worked at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida, Royal Court and many times in the West End as well as on TV, film and radio. She is also an experienced facilitator and loves co-creating and devising work with young people and adults as part of various community arts projects.