Plays Written by Becca Blackmore:
DEAD BEHIND THE EYES
Synopses:
Dead Behind the Eyes – Five female archetypes live together in an enchanted castle waiting for a man to arrive to choose one of them. As they wait, they start to stretch the boundaries of their tropes. When a man finally does arrive, they aren’t so sure about how to respond.
Bio:
Becca Blackmore is the co-author of the musicals Academia Nuts (Best New Musical, NYMF 2014), Hatter (GMTWP @ NYU 2011, Indiana University 2014), Snow Way Out, The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians, Eau Blanche!, Grandma’s Last Hurrah, and Period Piece (The Marilyn Monroe Theatre 2010) and the author of the plays President Mom (Caryl Crane Youth Theatre 2015, ‘Iolani School 2015), Baby Factory, Bedtime (The Blank Theatre Living Room Series 2015), Untitled, The Interview, Park Bench (Occupy the Empty Space 2013), and Over-Ripe (LAFPI SWAN Day 2014). Her works have been finalists for the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize, the NuVoices Playwriting Prize, the Trustus Playwrights Festival, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. Her play President Mom (with Dan Marshall) won the 2014 Ronald M. Ruble New Play prize and a 2015 Tam & Young Arts Chair Visiting Artist Residency in Honolulu.
She has also written a full-length screenplay and several short screenplays as well as two novels.
She holds both a BFA and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.