Rebecca Nichloson

Rebecca Nichloson (She/Her) is a Black, queer, femme playwright, creative writer, singer/songwriter and interdisciplinary artist. She is the authorof 50+ plays and creative works, including Submerged (An Opera); Dear America(libretto & vocals and vocal arrangement; Minnesota Opera); A Very Special Minnesota Garden(Minnesota Opera); Hue and Cry; Hello, I’m Eve; Mara, Queen of the World; The Wild, Bold Enlightenment of Satine; Cooking With Ellise; Jill, Jack & the Martian Lady (a play she created for a children’s educational workshop), Sasha K. Jenkins: Kid Scientist among others. Her fiction and performance pieces include Children of the First Hummingbird, Submerged, Zar-Baby,and Conjuring Transcendence, among others. She has been published in About Journal: Geographies of Justice, The Star Tribune, and anthologies, among others.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from Columbia University and an M.A. in English Literature. She also studied publishing at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Rebecca is the recipient of a commission from the Cedar CulturalCenter for which she created Multicolored Musings: Jewels of Love, Loss, & Triumph(a three-part collection of songs exploring her Nigerian (Igbo) and African American heritage and passion for genre eclectic music) and received an honorable mention from the McKnight Foundation (Spoken Word).

She is the recipient of a Loft Literary Center Mentorship Series Fellowship, a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellowship, a Liberace Award, a Howard Stein Fellowship, a Matthew’s Fellowship, an America-in-Play Fellowship, and two Many Voices Fellowships from the Minneapolis Playwrights Center.

Rebecca’s work has been presented at the Walker Art Center, Signature Theatre Company (Columbia New Plays Now), Harlem Classical Theatre (Playwrights Playground), East Side Freedom Library, the Loft Literary Center, Pangea World Theatre, Red Eye Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, MN Opera and on Twin Cities Public Television, among others. She has taught playwriting and storytelling at the Loft Literary Center and the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and is the founder of The Kaleidoscope Project, RUMINATION GARDEN and artistic director of Cleveland-Harris Theatre Company (a theatre, performance, and public imagination project).

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