22 Facts About Bekah Brunstetter

Rebecca Leah "Bekah" Brunstetter was born on June 13,1982 and is an American writer.

Bekah Brunstetter is a founding member of The Kilroys, which annually produces The Kilroys' List.

Rebecca Leah Brunstetter was born on June 13,1982, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Bekah Brunstetter is the daughter of former North Carolina Senator Peter S Brunstetter and Jodie Brunstetter.

Bekah Brunstetter was raised as the only daughter among three brothers in a conservative Christian home.

Bekah Brunstetter wrote poems and short stories from a young age, and became involved with theater after moving from a private Christian middle school to Mount Tabor High School, a public school.

Bekah Brunstetter wrote her first play as a first-year student and decided to pursue playwriting as a career.

Bekah Brunstetter continued to study playwriting for three years in the School of Drama at The New School, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

Duncan Pflaster of BroadwayWorld observed that the play seemed to "reinforce the stereotype that women need men to feel complete", but praised Bekah Brunstetter's writing and character development.

Kathleen Foley later reviewed the Los Angeles premiere positively in the Los Angeles Times, observing that Bekah Brunstetter was adept at manipulating the audience's emotions to good effect.

Bekah Brunstetter continued her playwriting while working as a screenwriter, premiering her work Forgotten Corners of Your Dark, Dark Place, which starred actresses in wheelchairs, at the Theater Breaking Through Barriers' annual festival of new plays.

Bekah Brunstetter collaborated with other Los Angeles-area writers to create The Kilroys' List, an annual list of plays by female and transgender playwrights modeled on the Black List but intended to promote gender equity.

In 2015, Bekah Brunstetter began writing The Cake, a play about a baker who is asked to bake a cake for the wedding of her best friend's daughter but refuses because it is a same-sex wedding.

Bekah Brunstetter was credited as a writer on the first-season finale, titled "Come to Jesus", which Oliver Sava singled out in Vulture as an exciting standout in an otherwise poorly-paced season.

Bekah Brunstetter joined the NBC series This Is Us, first as a staff writer, then story editor, before becoming a supervising producer.

Bekah Brunstetter was nominated along with fellow producers for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2017,2018, and 2019.

Bekah Brunstetter was one of several writers to receive an inaugural $5,000 Writers Alliance Grant from the Dramatists Guild Foundation in 2018, with Bekah Brunstetter's grant supporting a new commission from Theater Breaking Through Barriers.

Bekah Brunstetter was hired in 2017 to adapt the bestselling self-help book The Secret for film.

Bekah Brunstetter's script adapts the book's ideas about the "law of attraction" into a story about the relationship between a widowed mother and a handyman who shares his thoughts on how the universe works.

In 2019, singer Ingrid Michaelson announced that she and Bekah Brunstetter had been collaborating on an adaptation of The Notebook into a Broadway musical, with author Nicholas Sparks later confirming his involvement in the production.

Rebecca Ritzel of Washington City Paper criticized the connection between the story and the music, saying that "the plot stops when the music starts", but favorably noted that both Paul and Bekah Brunstetter had drawn on their personal religious backgrounds to craft a "more subtle, and more empathetic" musical than similarly irreverent works like Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.

In 2017, as a Valentine's Day present, Bekah Brunstetter wrote a short film script for Keddie based on a story about his uncle.