Becca Blackmore is the co-author of the musicals Quiz Bowl (formerly Academia Nuts) (Best New Musical, NYMF; virtual production at NYFA), Snow Way Out (Micro-Musical Theatre Show Podcast; York Theatre Company Developmental Reading Series), The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians (Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals), Hatter (Indiana University, NYU, Ronald M. Ruble New Play Prize Finalist), Grandma’s Last Hurrah, and Period Piece (The Marilyn Monroe Theatre) and the author of the plays President Mom (with Dan Marshall, Notre Dame College, Caryl Crane Youth Theatre, ‘Iolani School), Bedtime (The Blank Theatre Living Room Series), Baby Factory, Dead Behind the Eyes, or The Ingénue Play (Vintage Theatre; Rover Readings), Peaceful Warrior, Over-Ripe (LAFPI SWAN Day, Manhattan Shakespeare Project), and The Thomas Hardy Project. Her works have been finalists or semi-finalists for the Kleban Prize, the Princess Grace Awards, the Jane Chambers Award, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize, the NuVoices Playwriting Prize, the Trustus Playwrights Festival, Isle of Shoals Lance Hewett Series, the Todd McNerney Playwriting Award, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Her play President Mom won the 2014 Ronald M. Ruble New Play prize and a 2015 Tam & Young Arts Chair Visiting Artist Residency in Honolulu. Becca is the author of the original pilots Songs of Bernadette and Republic of California, and the co-author First Realm Problems (with Hudson Meredith) of Department of Ed (with Dan Marshall). Becca’s songs have been performed on six continents, but she hopes that Antarctica will happen at some point, too. She holds both a BFA and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Website: www.beccawrites.com