GROW UP, GUYS
A veteran of routine workplace misogyny, she was accustomed to being labeled ‘difficult.’ Then someone called her a ‘lunatic,’ and it was time to fight back.
Theresa Rebeck is the creator and executive producer of NBC’s new musical drama Smash. Rebeck is also an acclaimed and widely produced playwright whose newest play, Seminar, starring Alan Rickman, is currently playing on Broadway. Rebeck has been honored with numerous awards for her work in both television and theater, including two Emmy nominations, a Writers Guild of America Award, a Peabody Award, and she was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist.
For the People
Smash’s creator Theresa Rebeck has been unnerved by reporters asking her whether a story about theater is interesting to the masses—when theater is all about community, she writes.