About
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Becca Wolff is a California-based director of theater & film. She explores the intersection of the theatrical and the confessional, collaborating with virtuosic performer/creators to explore deeply personal material in bold new ways.
Current work is an untitled adaptation of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk. True to the mission of her past work, this piece is an adaptation of a classical text to the exploration of a personal story. For the first time, the personal story is her own. It is about marriage – gay & Jewish – possession and assimilation. She workshopped the project at the Mercury Store and continued development will be announced soon. Upcoming projects with Shotgun Players in Berkeley include this summer’s production of Collective Rage and a workshop for her ongoing collaboration with Ivana Shein on her play Canadian Book of the Dead.
Our Country, her collaboration with Annie Saunders of Wilderness, is currently touring. The project has appeared at On the Boards in Seattle, the Public Theater, Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Sibiu Festival in Romania, New York Stage & Film's Powerhouse, Summerhall @ the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. The piece was commissioned by San Francisco Playhouse, and developed at the Getty Villa, Brown Arts Institute and with crucial support from piece by piece productions and the Getty Villa.
Other projects include Giovanni Adams' critically acclaimed solo Love Is a Dirty Word, which premiered in a sold out run at VS. Theatre Company in LA, and toured to Z Space in San Francisco. Also at Z Space, she directed the Kilbanes’ smash-hit rock opera Weightless, produced in association with piece by piece productions. Weightless has since been presented at the ACT and at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival in association with BRIC Arts Media.
Recent productions in the Bay Area include the world premiere of Hamed Sinno’s The Suicide Bomber for Golden Thread Productions’ 2023 ReOrient Festival, the regional premiere of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation (San Francisco Playhouse) and Yilong Liu’s The Book of Mountains and Seas (New Conservatory Theatre Center, SF.) She served as development dramaturg for Torange Yeghiazarian’s play The Tutor at NCTC. She also directed The Statue, a short film by Natalie Newman, which screened at San Diego Comic-Con 2021, Brooklyn International Film Festival, the Bay Area Intl Children’s Film Festival (Children’s Choice Award winner,) and Film Independent’s Project Involve. Further dates TBA soon.
She is developing and Ivana Shein (Canadian Book of the Dead)
Her work has been named to Best Of lists in the SF Chronicle and LA Weekly. Awards and nominations for her work include Princess Grace, Outstanding Solo Show & Outstanding Musical at the NYC Fringe, Ovations (Los Angeles), Theatre Bay Area and Bay Area Critics Circle. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama & co-creator of SCOTUS Theater. Member SDC.