Becca Blackwell

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Becca Blackwell (born 1973/1974) [1] is an American trans actor, performer, and playwright based in New York City. Blackwell's pronoun is the singular they. [2] Their play "They, Themself and Schmerm", has been presented by a number of venues including The Public Theater's 2018 Under the Radar Festival, [3] Abrons Arts Center, [4] and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival. [5] Musician Kathleen Hanna, writing for Artforum, listed Blackwell among their favourite performers of 2014. [6] Blackwell was a recipient of a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. [7] In 2016, they were interviewed by Jim Fletcher for BOMB Magazine. [1] Blackwell is part of the 2019 class of the Joe's Pub Working Group, a program dedicated to supporting artists at a critical point in their careers. [8]

WorkRoleLocationYearReference
"Untitled Feminist Show" Jerome Robbins Theatre 2012 [9]
"Seagull: Thinking of You"Trigorin/Peter/Dorn New Ohio Theatre 2013 [10]
"Samara"The Manan A.R.T./New York Theaters 2017 [11]
"Is This a Room"Unknown Male The Kitchen 2019 [12]
"Hurricane Diane" Diane New York Theatre Workshop 2019 [13]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2022 Peabody Awards Entertainment Sort Of Nominated [14]

References

  1. 1 2 "Becca Blackwell by Jim Fletcher - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. 15 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  2. ↑ Albo, Mike (2019-06-17). "Becca Blackwell Is A Natural Disruptor". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 2019-06-30. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  3. ↑ "Becca Blackwell". Archived from the original on 2019-07-30. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Becca Blackwell: They, Themself and Schmerm".[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Becca Blackwell". Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  6. ↑ Hanna, Kathleen (December 2014). "Music: Best of 2014". Artforum . Vol. 53, no. 4. Archived from the original on 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  7. ↑ "2015 Doris Duke Impact Awards | Grant Recipients | Doris Duke Charitable Foundation". Artforum . Archived from the original on 2022-11-13. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  8. ↑ Russonello, Giovanni (2019-01-23). "Joe's Pub Announces a Diverse Group of Artists in Residence". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  9. ↑ Als, Hilton (2012-01-19). "Young Jean Lee's "Untitled Feminist Show"". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X. Archived from the original on 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  10. ↑ Brantley, Ben (2013-01-26). "'Seagull (Thinking of You),' at New Ohio Theater". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-06-29. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  11. ↑ Brantley, Ben (2017-05-14). "Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in 'Samara'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  12. ↑ Hess, Amanda (2018-12-30). "Staging Reality Winner: An F.B.I. Transcript Becomes an Offbeat Thriller". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  13. ↑ Green, Jesse (2019-03-24). "Review: In 'Hurricane Diane,' the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-03-15. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  14. ↑ Voyles, Blake (September 20, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Nominees". Archived from the original on September 26, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
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