Theresa Rebeck Visits Texas State University for SEMINAR Rehearsals

Peabody award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck will visit Texas State University this weekend to spend some time with the cast and director of her play Seminar, currently in rehearsal at the university.

Rebeck is in Houston rehearsing the premiere of Fool, her new play commissioned by the Alley Theatre and will be coming to the San Marocs campus on her days off. In addition to working with the Seminar cast and graduate director David Weynand, there will be a Q&A with Rebeck on Sunday, January 26th, from 4:30 to 5:30 in room 206 of the Theater Building on the Texas State campus. It is open to the public.

Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad. New York productions of her work include Dead Accounts at the Music Box Theatre; Seminar at the Golden Theatre; Mauritius at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production; The Scene, The Water's Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; The Understudy at the Laura Pels Theater in a Roundabout Theatre Company production; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop. Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre. Her play, Poor Behavior, premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 2011. Dead Accounts, commissioned by the Cincinnati Playhouse, premiered January 2012.

For additional information, please contact John Fleming at the Texas State Department of Theatre and Dance at (512) 245-3660.