Rebbekah Vega-Romero

Rebbekah Vega-Romero

Rebbekah Vega-Romero (she/her/ella) is a queer, neurospicy, Afro-Latina-Jewish
performer, writer, and producer, who resides in her native NYC with her cat. Rebbekah is a graduate of LaGuardia (FAME) High School, holds a BA from Boston University & is a YoungArts award-winner. Rebbekah is a 2023 Doreen Montalvo Scholarship honoree, and a 2023 inaugural fellow for the Summer Jam Fellowship at the...
Rebbekah Vega-Romero (she/her/ella) is a queer, neurospicy, Afro-Latina-Jewish
performer, writer, and producer, who resides in her native NYC with her cat. Rebbekah is a graduate of LaGuardia (FAME) High School, holds a BA from Boston University & is a YoungArts award-winner. Rebbekah is a 2023 Doreen Montalvo Scholarship honoree, and a 2023 inaugural fellow for the Summer Jam Fellowship at the Dramatists Guild Foundation.

Writing Highlights: Rebbekah’s first full-length play, Smalls & Talls: A Duet for Two Women, is a 2024 Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Rebbekah wrote, starred in, & produced the short film “The Question,” an Official Selection of the Chain Festival, the Katra LatinX Film Festival, the Los Angeles Asian Film Awards and the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. Rebbekah is a librettist member of the Untitled Writer’s Group; she is a produced playwright with Playground-NY; her poetry is featured by Sixfold & Ars.Poetica, and is the basis for Lace/Love/Letters, a customized art gift-shop.

Performance Highlights: Luisa/The Fantasticks/Cape Playhouse; Martha Cratchit/A Christmas Carol/Denver Center; Maria/West Side Story/5th Avenue, Rini/The Moss Maidens/SheNYC Arts festival, plus countless other productions, readings & workshops. Rebbekah’s solo cabaret show, Ingenuity, is available for booking.

Rebbekah hopes her work inspires other mixed-race girls to share their magic. Connect virtually: www.RebbekahVegaRomero.com or @RebbekahVR on all social platforms.

Plays

  • Smalls and Talls: A Duet for Two Women by Rebbekah Vega-Romero
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: female friendship, memory play + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, holiday
    Keyword: female friendship, memory play, Colorism, class, friendship, theatre school, pandemic survival, hiking
    Smalls & Talls is an intimate dramedy tracing the evolution of a friendship between two very different women. Talia and Samantha, best friends from a college theatre program, have grown apart. “Talls,” a petite Afro-Latina, has spent the pandemic entangled in an abusive relationship, losing hope that her career will ever get off the ground in NYC; “Smalls,” a Black plus-sized software developer, has built...
    Smalls & Talls is an intimate dramedy tracing the evolution of a friendship between two very different women. Talia and Samantha, best friends from a college theatre program, have grown apart. “Talls,” a petite Afro-Latina, has spent the pandemic entangled in an abusive relationship, losing hope that her career will ever get off the ground in NYC; “Smalls,” a Black plus-sized software developer, has built an upperclass life for herself in San Diego. When they reunite on New Year’s Day hike, old wounds around body image, race, and class are exposed, which play out in real time and also moving backwards through the history of their friendship. Smalls & Talls asks us: what does it actually mean to be a good friend?
  • The Brunch Swap by Rebbekah Vega-Romero
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: grief, Infertility Issues + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: grief, Infertility Issues, GLBTQ, female friendship
    10-minute short dramedy for 3 women. On Black Friday, Teo's best friend and cousin help her sort through her recently deceased mother's extensive closet for new adventures and old wisdom.
  • D.U.C.K.ing Cupid! by Rebbekah Vega-Romero
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, holiday + 4 more
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    Keyword: Sex addiction, love addiction
    Genre: dark comedy, holiday, melodrama, musical, parody/spoof, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Sex addiction, love addiction
    10-minute short absurdist musical comedy for 2 women and 2 men. On the brink of global stardom, and eager to escape a toxic marriage, young Mimi stumbles into an off-brand therapy group for Sex & Love addicts. Will this wayward band of Anti-Cupid Crusaders help Mimi find the hero inside herself?
  • Princess in Disguise by Rebbekah Vega-Romero
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, fable/folktale + 1 more
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    Keyword: Cinderella Story, fairytale + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fable/folktale, young audiences
    Keyword: Cinderella Story, fairytale, comedy, child abuse
    10-minute comedic short play about Cinderella’s step-sister’s step-daughter. 3 women, ready for production.