Directing
Rebeca made her directorial debut in 2018 with Atlanta Theatre Club’s production of Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, which she also produced. Rebeca went on to direct George Brant’s Grounded, which garnered a Suzi Bass Recommendation and was named one of the best productions of 2019 by ArtsATL. After directing a series of short plays in The One Minute Play Festival at Actor’s Express (Atlanta) and The Fast Play Fest at The Barrow Group (NYC), Rebeca assistant directed the World Premiere of Scott Organ’s 17 Minutes at The Barrow Group (Off-Broadway) under director Seth Barrish (Broadway’s The New One).
Most recently, Rebeca directed Liza Birkenmeier’s Dr. Ride’s American Beach House at Yale Cabaret, and assistant directed Heidi Schreck’s Grand Concourse at Yale School of Drama under director Joan MacIntosh.
producing
In 2017, Rebeca founded Atlanta Theatre Club— an itinerant company focused on premiering female-driven contemporary works in Atlanta. ATC garners multiple Suzi Bass Award nominations and was named “Best Emerging Theater” by Atlanta Magazine in 2019. In three years, Rebeca produced four critically-acclaimed productions through ATC.
Rebeca is currently developing a new play, Gods of Mercy by Joshua Owen. She produced a 29-hour workshop and reading of the play at Teatro Latea, directed by Sammy Zeisel and featuring Timothy Busfield, Connie Shulman, Ethan Dubin and herself. Rebeca is excited to continue developing this play for a full run in NYC soon.
Read more about the project in Playbill.
“Director [of Dry Land] Rebeca Robles zeroes in on the wildly shifting emotional microcosms of the girls’ interactions; the production is especially adept at capturing the way any encounter between adolescents can be, by turns, cruel, scary, comforting, funny, devastating.”
— Arts ATL
“Directed by Rebeca Robles, Grounded never offers any easy answers about drone technology or the nature of warfare, but the small, one-woman show nonetheless delivers a powerful punch and feels uncomfortably believable...Bottom Line: A strong, minimalistic production of a compelling one-woman show.”
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The company, founded by actor/director/producer Rebeca Robles, has done just four titles in its three-year history, but each has made theatergoers and critics take notice…We look forward to seeing what Atlanta Theatre Club does next — and where.”
—ArtsATL
BEST OF 2019!
“the Robles-directed one-woman drama Grounded… featured a shattering performance by Courtney Moors in a minimalist staging that only made the drama more visceral.”
— ArtsATL