Rebecca Dzida grew up in California and lives in the Washington, DC area, where she joined a cohort of amazing artists as the fourth generation of The Welders, a nonprofit playwrights' collective. For the next few years, she'll be running The Welders with her cohort and producing their own original works. Her day job includes running the education programs for Olney Theatre Center. Rebecca's work has been performed around the country. She is a two-time finalist of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her ten-minute plays. Her one-act The Greatest Performance was nominated for the Playwrights Award at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City. She’s also been commissioned for various work around DC, including Capitol Fringe and the One-Minute Play...
Rebecca Dzida grew up in California and lives in the Washington, DC area, where she joined a cohort of amazing artists as the fourth generation of The Welders, a nonprofit playwrights' collective. For the next few years, she'll be running The Welders with her cohort and producing their own original works. Her day job includes running the education programs for Olney Theatre Center. Rebecca's work has been performed around the country. She is a two-time finalist of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her ten-minute plays. Her one-act The Greatest Performance was nominated for the Playwrights Award at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City. She’s also been commissioned for various work around DC, including Capitol Fringe and the One-Minute Play Festival. Her full-length thesis play Preggers, or Parenthood for Virgins premiered at CUA as part of the M.F.A. New Play Rep and was featured in the Washington Post's list of best arts events in 2017. You can read her work on the New Play Exchange and listen to some of her plays on the podcasts Inkubator On Air and ETC's Lights Up!.