REBECCA FORD

Rebecca Akosua Asantewah Ford (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, actor, dancer, choreographer, and Fort-Greene native.

In her work as a playwright, Rebecca enjoys telling stories that play on the boundary line and explore conflicted characters who exist in social and cultural in-between spaces. One of her goals as an artist is to challenge the generalized understandings of what “real” blackness, queerness, and womanhood “should” look like or be and present characters who complicate these stereotypes and expand the definition of what it is to be black, queer, and woman. She feels most alive in her plays when they allow her to dance on that boundary line, like a kid, balancing on a ledge and seeing how free she can be before she falls— unafraid to skin her knee. 

She graduated from Amherst College with a degree in both English and Black Studies. She is currently in her final year of her of her MFA program at The New School pursuing her master's degree in Playwriting. Her most recent credits include: You Don’t Choose Your Team (Amherst College, Five College Consortium’s WORD! Festival), Revolutionaries, Please Stand Up! (Amherst College), Spell No. 7 (The New School), Divine Contradiction (The New School), and The Last Aisle (The New School). Rebecca can be found on IG as @rebeccafrombk.