Rebecca Blasband

Rebecca "Becky" Blasband is a singer/songwriter, screenwriter and actress born on July 8, 1967. She attended a private high school in Philadelphia, PA. At thirteen years old she began studying theater with John Strasberg and the Mirror Repertory Company in New York City. She later attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts for film and television. She went on to be one of the first round of students in David Mamet, William H. Macy and The Atlantic Theater Company's acting school in Vermont and Lincoln Center, NYC. Rebecca performed as an actress in small theaters in New York as well as Off Broadway. As a singer/songwriter, she performed around New York City and New England with then partner Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, That Thing You Do). She later went on to tour solo acoustic with Squeeze and Aimee Mann, opening for acts such as Jon Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty and Chris Whitley. In 1992 she was cast as one of seven artist roommates for MTV's first and groundbreaking series "The Real World", New York, 1992. This was the beginning of Reality Television. (She also appeared in The Real World Reunion (1995), The Real World Reunion: Inside Out (1996), The Real World You Never Saw (1997).) Rebecca recorded "Rapt" a critically well received CD of original material for Mercury/PolyGram as well as writing for Warner Chappell Music Publishing. She later applied herself to screen-writing, collaborating with Academy Award nominated filmmaker Antonin Svoboda on "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich." She continues to write for the screen as well as write and perform music. She calls herself an "armchair actress," meaning she'll take a role if it's given.