Becca Blackwell is a New York-based trans actor, performer, and writer who works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body. Blackwell, who exists between genders, and prefers the pronoun “they,” has worked with theater artists and playwrights like Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sarah Benson, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf, and Lisa D’Amour. Their past film and TV projects include, Marriage Story, Shameless, High Maintenance, Deadman’s Barstool, and Jack in the Box. Blackwell received the 2015 Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and has been profiled in The New Yorker, Gay Star News, and more. Blackwell makes their own work, touring their most recent solo show They, Themself, Scherm to over a dozen venues around the country.
For their project at Media Hour, Blackwell worked with collaborators Amanda Duarte, Jess Barbagallo, Amanda Hauser, Gregg Corbino, and Barbara Samuels.