Biografia
Rebecca is an acclaimed actor, producer, writer, and director. Beginning her career in theatre, she transitioned to film and television but continues to write, direct, and produce for the stage. Her notable theatre works include the award-winning script The Naked Woman, and productions such as The Normal Heart (producer), Rent (producer/director), and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (producer/director). Many of her theatre projects have served as fundraisers, raising funds and awareness for individuals living with HIV/AIDS and supporting arts organizations.
She earned a Blizzard Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Murdoch Mysteries: Except the Dying, the film that launched the long-running series, and received an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series for her co-starring role in The Pinkertons (Netflix).
Rebecca is a partner and Head of Production at Red Czarina Entertainment, where she produced and co-wrote the award-winning feature film H&G, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival. H&G was nominated for Best Canadian Feature at the Female Eye Film Festival and won a Joey Award for its lead actor (both lead actors were nominated in the same category). The film was recently acquired by Amazon Prime and contributed to director Danishka Estherazy's award at the Sundance Film Festival. Rebecca also wrote, directed, and produced the digital documentary series Child First, which debuted at the Understanding the Disability Trajectory of First Nations Families of Children with Disabilities National Summit. She produced and starred in the film Q&A, which premiered at the Whistler Film Festival, won Best of Fest at the Muskoka Film Festival, and received the Gold Remi for Best Original Comedy Short at WorldFest Houston. Additionally, Rebecca wrote, directed, and produced the documentary Daphne Korol: The Drama Queen of Winnipeg, earning her a Windy Award nomination for directing.
Rebecca wrote and will produce the feature film Jane Garbage, developed with support from Super Channel and Rogers. Jane Garbage won a screenwriting award at the Vancouver Women in Film Festival. She was invited to participate in the prestigious Women in the Director's Chair SIM 2.0 program in Vancouver and Whistler, as well as the Banff Centre Aspects of Camera and Post programs, and is a finalist in the upcoming Amp My Pitch competition at the Playback Marketing Summit. Together with her partner Valarie Thompson at Moving Future Productions, Rebecca created, produced, and served as mentor for the Orange Daisy Project, a 40-part digital documentary series and social action campaign promoting mental health among teen girls. The project has reached thousands through its tour and achieved best-seller status for the Orange Daisy Project Mental Health Workbook, co-written by Rebecca.
Her collaboration with Eagle Vision began with her award-winning short film Hard Way Girl and as writer/lead actor on the acclaimed series Tipi Tales (Parent's Choice Gold Medal Awards; Blizzard for Best Children or Youth Series), which ran for three seasons and shared Indigenous spiritual teachings with children worldwide. Rebecca has several projects in development with Eagle Vision as a writer, including the feature film Skinner— for which she was the only North American writer invited to the prestigious eQuinoxe summit in Austria—The Prairie Bridesmaid (co-written with Daria Salamon, based on her bestselling novel and to be directed by Sean Garrity), and Vulnerable Persons (co-written with Kyle Nobess, star of Mohawk Girls, which Rebecca will also direct). She also wrote and directed Eagle Vision's film Sea Legs, an Official Selection at the Gimli Film Festival and the National Screen Institute Online Film Festival. Hard Way Girl has screened at prestigious festivals in Russia, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Toronto, and Israel.
Rebecca serves as Co-Creator, Creative Producer, and episode writer/director for Eagle Vision's APTN/CBC series Taken, a compelling true crime series focused on Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, for which she received a Global Accolade Award of Merit for writing and directing. A passionate advocate for gender parity, Rebecca has mentored numerous actors and filmmakers and supports individuals of all ages in their artistic pursuits and storytelling.
