When Rebecca was in junior high school, she loved to write skits for her  classmates to perform for school projects. She often found herself directing and  acting in them too. By high school, she discovered filmmaking, with her work  featured in school film festivals. Later, as a student at Rutgers, the State University  of New Jersey, she majored in English and History, which led to a creative writing  journey that has not ended.  

She followed her college years with five years teaching preschool, interrupted  briefly by pursuing a Master’s Degree in Elementary and Early Childhood  Education from Rutgers Graduate School of Education, where she earned a  permanent New Jersey teaching license in 1992.  

Her experience as a student teacher with seventh graders, and later as an  elementary school resource room paraprofessional had a huge impact on her, as she  found her favorite lessons to teach involved helping students create plays and films  with storyboarding, script writing, and making their own student films.  

At this time, Rebecca wrote a play for family audiences that was performed as a  staged reading by Hedgerow Theatre Company in Media, PA in 1993, and as  another staged reading by the Toledo Repertoire Theatre in Toledo, OH, after  having taken third prize at the Midwestern Playwrights Festival at The University  of Toledo in 1997.  

A husband and two children later, Rebecca has volunteered at her children’s  elementary school as Third and Fourth Grade Drama Club Director, while  continuing to pursue creative writing in classes with Gotham Writers Workshop  and Primary Stages in New York City.  

She continues to educate children as a reading and writing teacher at a tutoring  center and as Education Director at a local church, where she directs students in  short plays which she also writes. Much of Rebecca’s current writing can be found  on blogging site, Medium.com, where she writes for online publications such as  The Memoirist and Plethora of Pop.