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Theresa Rebeck: Ten Questions
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Theresa Rebeck photographed by Walter Kurtz for The Dramatist

1What was your most memorable theatrical experience as a child?

Student matinees at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. I actually didn’t tell my mom that I was really sick one time, because I didn’t want to miss the student matinee of Tartuffe. Turned out I had to have an emergency appendectomy but the play may have been worth it. 

 

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Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Awards include the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama and a Peabody Award for her work on NYPD Blue, the National Theatre Conference Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, and a Lilly Award. In 2011 she was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She is the creator of the NBC drama Smash.