CONWAY, Ark. January 17, 2024 - Hendrix-Murphy Visiting Playwright Theresa Rebeck will read and discuss her work on Thursday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall on the Hendrix College campus. A reception and book signing in Trieschmann Gallery will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required.
Rebeck is an award-winning playwright whose work has been staged internationally. Her most recent works include I Need That (Broadway, 2023), Dig (Off Broadway, 2023), and Mad House (London’s West End, 2022). When I Need That premiered on Broadway, Rebeck became the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Her other Broadway works include Dead Accounts, Seminar, and Mauritius.
Her play Omnium Gatherum was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Other notable New York and regional plays include Downstairs, Seared, What We’re Up Against, Our House, The Understudy, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, View of the Dome, The Family of Mann, Loose Knit, and Spike Heels.
Rebeck is also known as a director, novelist, and film and television writer. Her directing work has been seen at The Alley Theatre (Houston), the REP Company (Delaware), Dorset Theatre Festival, the Orchard Project, and the Folger Theatre. Major film and television projects include Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse (writer and director); NYPD Blue; the NBC series Smash (creator); and the recent female spy thriller 355 (for Jessica Chastain’s production company). Rebeck’s novels include Three Girls and Their Brother and I'm Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, and a Lilly Award.