Rebecca Hart once accidentally won a comedy contest in Dublin, Ireland, while appearing as the musical guest (true story). In NYC she has appeared in productions with Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and The Civilians (Associate Artist), and has numerous regional credits including the 35th and 37th Humana Festivals (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and a 2017 Connecticut Critics Circle Best Actress nomination for her work in "Midsummer, a Play With Songs" at Theatreworks Hartford. Internationally she has performed with SABAB Theatre in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Tunisia, at the National Theatre of Oslo, and at the Druid Theatre/Town Hall in Galway Ireland. She is the female lead in the indie film “Wendell & the Lemon” (SlamDance Fest 2015) and can be seen playing guitar and sulking in Jason Reitman & Diablo Cody’s “Young Adult”. She has written songs for productions with The Civilians, Target Margin Theatre, the New Ohio’s Ice Factory Festival, the Spkrbox Festival in Oslo Norway, and the National Alliance for Music Theatre (NAMT) Conference 2014. She is a 2017 NY Innovative Theatre Award nominee for 'Best Original Music' for Hard Sparks' "The Cabaret at the End of the World". She has gigged extensively all over the country and in Ireland and is currently a regular at the Rockwood Music Hall in NYC. Her upcoming EP, 'The Magician's Daughter', is a collaboration with acclaimed cellist/songwriter Ben Sollee and was produced by Mr. Sollee in Louisville and Ben Arons in NYC. She studied Theatre at Brown University, trained as an actress at the Maggie Flanigan Studio, and is currently an MFA candidate in NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
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Sheila Callaghan's '(Not) Water' runs June 6-30 2017 at New Georges
is a large-scale, immersive theater piece that addresses humanity’s relationship to water in the face of profound environmental change
(NOT) WATER
a world premiere play
co-conceived by Sheila Callaghan & Daniella Topol
by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Daniella Topol
associate playwright: Liza Birkenmeierwith Rebecca Hart, Carmen M. Herlihy, Ethan Hova, Polly Lee, April Matthis
and Mike Shapirodesign by Deb O (set), Ari Fulton (costumes), Barbara Samuels (lights),
Broken Chord (composition and sound) and Cory Einbinder (video) -
The Magicians' Daughter EP coming soon
In January, I spent a week in Louisville, KY, recording seven songs with cellist/producer/singer/songwriter/man about town Ben Sollee in his home studio, and blogged about it. Currently continuing work on this with producer Ben Arons in NYC. Release date TBD.