Humanities Staff

Rebecca Nesvet
MFA (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University), MPhil (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), BA (Bowdoin College, Maine)

Position
Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing

Contact
Email: rnesvet@glos.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1242 714695

Rebecca Nesvet is a playwright and has also published poetry (Haiku, Avocado), theatre criticism (including in The Western Mail, The New Welsh Review and Offoffonline) and research articles on early modern literature and drama and contemporary European drama, most recently in Shakespearean International Yearbook, Women's Writing, and the RES. Her plays produced in the US, include The Girl in the Iron Mask and The Shape Shifter, and have been stage-read at world theatres including the Hampstead (London), Public (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington DC) and the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. She has won several US and international playwriting awards, including First Place in the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Playwriting Competition and First Place in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Playworks. Her screenplay A Habitable World - about the "Jacobean space program" described by John Wilkins in his delightful 1638 pamphlet "Discovery of a World in the Moon" -- won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Public Understanding of Science Writing Grant. Most recently, Rebecca has guest-edited a special edition on "International Anglophone Theatre," with contributions from round the world, for the Romania-based journal American, British and Canadian Studies; and is writing a short film for Los Angeles-based Sloan Grantee animator/director Debra Isaac. Rebecca also serves as Literary Manager of New York's critically acclaimed Origin Theatre Company, which stages North American premieres of plays by emerging and established European playwrights.