Rebecca Hart is a New York-based actress, singer/songwriter, and writer of songs and stories for musical theatre. 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). Internationally she has performed with SABAB Theatre in Kuwait, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and at the Druid Theatre/Town Hall in Galway Ireland (as well as many concerts around that country). 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 made 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 regular at venues like The Rockwood Music Hall and Joe’s Pub and sings frequently with Brooklyn-based folk outfit the Dirty Waltz Band (also featuring Mike Shapiro). She is currently collaborating with acclaimed cellist/songwriter Ben Sollee on a new recording, 'The Magician's Daughter', produced by Mr. Sollee and Ben Arons. 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.