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Becca Schlossberg is an American playwright and performer. They are a genderqueer Jewish writer, best known for their play, Just Like I Wanted, about a teen who commits suicide and the effect it has on those around him.[1]
Early Life and Education
editSchlossberg is from Livingston, New Jersey but has since moved to Brooklyn, NY.[2] They got their BA at Drew University and their MFA at the New School of Drama for playwriting. They are also an alumnus of Page 73's Interstate Writer's Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood, and The Amoralists' Wright Club.[3]
Career
editSchlossberg’s most famous show, Just Like I Wanted, was first produced in 2004 at Livingston High School in Livingston, New Jersey.[4] Just Like I Wanted features a teen who commits suicide. The play examines why he killed himself and the impact his death has on those around him.
Schlossberg had their show, 3boys, performed at the 2010 New York International Fringe FestivalNew York Fringe Festival.[5] 3boys is about three dogs learning the realities of the dog world and serves as an allegory for mens’ social environments in the human world.
Schlossberg participated in the New York International Fringe Festival in 2013 with their play, cal & grey, about a post apocalypticpost-apocalyptic version of the United States where children are wards of the state to rehabilitate the population after a coup.[6]
They created the organization, Sunglasses After Dark, a theater company devoted to genderqueer casting in New York. At Sunglasses After Dark, Schlossberg wrote and produced Guidance, a play in which two siblings drive to Savannah after leaving their abusive home.
In 2014, Schlossberg was accepted into the 39th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival for Unkempt, their one act play about parents finding out the truth about their son as they pack up his room.[7]
Schlossberg’s work, Punches, was turned into a short film in which they also acted.[8] Punches features two friends figuring out their relationship before one of them moves away.
Schlossberg wrote Blood Memory, a one- person show about the line of trauma from the Holocaust through Schlossberg’s grandmother, mother, and themself in 2017. Blood Memory premiered in a reading at Dixon Place.[9]
The Untold Yippie Project was first produced in 2017 by Sunglasses After Dark Productions at the Access Theater in New York.[10] It is a dramatized version of the true story from 1970 where a group of Yippies shut down Disneyland as a political protest.[11] The Untold Yippie Project was also Schlossberg’s first play to be published by Samuel French, Inc.Samuel French Publishing Company.
Schlossberg’s play, Discus, was commissioned by the Hunger and Thirst Theatre in New York.[12] Hunger and Thirst Theatre is a organization that produced modern retellings of classic tales. Discus is about the love story of Apollo and Hyacinth (known in Greek mythology as Hyacinthus). It tells the story of Apollo and Hyacinth’s love and Hyacinth’s death amidst a backdrop of a political world where the Titans and Olympians both vie for power.
Schlossberg’s most recent work is Dybbuk Bat Mitzvah, a coming of agecoming-of-age story about a Bat Mitzvah girl who gets possessed by the ghost of her former classmate. It is a finalist for the Jewish Plays Project’s 14th National Jewish Playwriting Contest.[13]
Works
edit• Just Like I Wanted
• All We Are
• 3boys
• cal & grey
• Guidance
• Forever Friends
• Unkempt
• Punches
• Hands
• Blood Memory
• The Untold Yippie Project
• Discus
• The Whipping Boy & The Prince
• Dybbuk Bat Mitzvah
References
edit- ^ Schlossberg, Becca. "Official Website of Becca Schlossberg". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Szymkowicz, Adam. "I Interview Playwrights Part 943: Becca Schlossberg". Blogspot. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Becca Schlossberg Bio". Playscripts. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Just Like I Wanted Rights". Playscripts. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Dinero, Dan. "3boys Review". Theatre is Easy. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Herman, Jerron. "cal and grey Review". Theatre is Easy. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Schlossberg, Becca. "Plays". Becca Schlossberg Website. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Schlossberg, Becca. "Punches - A Short Film". YouTube. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Blood Memory: an urgent exploration". Dixon Place. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "The Untold Yippee Project Rights". Concord Theatrical. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Silverman, Stephen. "How a Band of Yippies Shut Down Disneyland for Just the Second Time in History". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Discus Promotion". Hunger and Thirst Theatre. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Cristi, A.A. "Announcing Seven Finalists in the 14th National Jewish Playwriting Contest; Finalists To Embark On International Tour, Including NYC and Israel". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 10 December 2024.