Hello, I'm Rebecca Marquardt (mAr-kwArt)! I'm a writer, director and actor who's also really great at music and live-stream tech.
I was born and raised in Texas and live in Austin but my heart is still in NYC (hopefully my body will catch up soon). I got a masters in oboe performance from the Cincinnati Conservatory before realizing I didn't want to be an oboe player (oops!), so I quit music and moved to Chicago to study comedy, writing, and acting.
I bought my first camera in 2010 and taught myself how to shoot, edit, and eventually live-stream. My looping act made the front page of reddit and got me shoutouts from Nicki Minaj ("fkng icon") and Leslie Jones (hello SNL tickets!), and my desperate attempt to keep my workplace safe at the beginning of the pandemic got 225k views.
I host a queer history podcast called Gay or Nay that will have new episodes someday, for now you can catch me on Thursdays for a live stream series where a guest filmmaker and I (and viewers) watch a movie together while adding our own commentary.
I recently finished a short film script about a queer 13-year-old finding love in a nine-pin bowling alley in rural Texas in the 90s, I'm co-writing/directing a short that goes into production this Fall, and I am developing a couple features and a series with hopes to shoot one improv-heavy feature in the next year.
I was born and raised in Texas and live in Austin but my heart is still in NYC (hopefully my body will catch up soon). I got a masters in oboe performance from the Cincinnati Conservatory before realizing I didn't want to be an oboe player (oops!), so I quit music and moved to Chicago to study comedy, writing, and acting.
I bought my first camera in 2010 and taught myself how to shoot, edit, and eventually live-stream. My looping act made the front page of reddit and got me shoutouts from Nicki Minaj ("fkng icon") and Leslie Jones (hello SNL tickets!), and my desperate attempt to keep my workplace safe at the beginning of the pandemic got 225k views.
I host a queer history podcast called Gay or Nay that will have new episodes someday, for now you can catch me on Thursdays for a live stream series where a guest filmmaker and I (and viewers) watch a movie together while adding our own commentary.
I recently finished a short film script about a queer 13-year-old finding love in a nine-pin bowling alley in rural Texas in the 90s, I'm co-writing/directing a short that goes into production this Fall, and I am developing a couple features and a series with hopes to shoot one improv-heavy feature in the next year.