REBECCA BREWER
Rebecca Brewer is an actor, writer and theatre maker creating musicals, plays, and work for screen.
She wrote the book, and co-wrote the music and lyrics (with Daisy Chute) for COVEN - a musical about the Pendle Witch trials opens at the Kiln Theatre, London in October 2025, directed by Miranda Cromwell.
In 2024-2025, she was one of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Writers (at MAST Mayflower Studios, alongside Daisy Chute). As part of this. Rebecca and Daisy collaborated on The Last Rose of Summer, a new musical work inspired by Jane Austen’s connection to Southampton for MAST Mayflower Studios.
Rebecca is working on an original television pilot and was one of 12 mentored writers as part of the 2024 Channel 4 Screenwriting Programme.
Previously, Rebecca was a recipient of the MGC Futures Bursary for 2021, and an Associate Artist at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 2020-2021. As part of this, Rebecca was commissioned by the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Creative Estuary to create Tales from the Thames with co-writers Vickie Donoghue and folk musician MG Boulter. Her play Foot, about 3 teenagers in rural Derbyshire who discover a disembodied foot in the woods, was a finalist for New Perspectives’ Open Pitch in 2018, and her one-woman piece The Escape, an audio piece about going missing was a finalist for In Good Company’s ‘Take Off’ new writing award in 2019.
As an actor, Rebecca has worked at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida, Royal Court and many times in the West End as well as on TV, film and radio.