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Greetings. I'm a Wellesley grad and University of Minnesota employee who first came on-line in 1993 while working for the Pediatrics Department (Hi, Clint). Here are my contributions to cyberspace.
Directing/writing
I studied screenwriting with Sterling VanWagenen (creator of the Sundance Institute, and don't let anyone tell you different) while attending graduate school in 1986 (the winter TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL was nominated for 2 major Oscars. It's all in the timing.). As a result, I belong to the John Gardner "On Moral Fiction" school of thought. I attended the film festival in Park City in 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989. I was strongly influenced by Todd Haynes' "Superstar" and "The Great O'Grady" but have made theater my venue in west central Minnesota. I have a Masters in theatre and education and have directed about a dozen productions.

I've decided to sell my plays about Pope County, Minnesota (cleverly entitled POPE FICTION) on-line through an enterprise I call "Service Artists."
Service Artists



Career Development Grant video production, SHORTY'S GHOST
Sponsored by the Lake Region Arts Council.

I formed the club (the name is borrowed from the Christopher Walken film, "Who Am I This Time?") in the fall of 1995 after being invited to a COMPAC meeting encouraging collaboration between rural artists. Sharon Alessi promised she'd help anybody who took the lead, which was all the support I needed (at the time. Hello, Lake Region Arts Council!). The Minnewaska Mask and Wig Club was designed to be an on-going, low-budget performing arts club for county youth. Here are some of our events.

  • Best Christmas Pageant Ever, December 1995
  • Living in the Mild Midwest, Summer 1996
  • Simply Annie, February 1997
  • Terrace 1997
  • Fall 1997 (Barely Annie Open House)
  • Pope Fiction, "Minnewaska Mischief" (spring 1998)
  • The kids rehearse POPE FICTION
  • Fall 1999 (Gigs, gigs, gigs...put these kids on tv!)
  • Shorty's Ghost (Pope Fiction Episode Two) (May 2000).
  • The Stevens County Moppets (Summer 1998)
  • The world premiere adaptation of SARAH AND KATIE, February 1999
  • THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (Life with Mother Superior by Jane Trahey) (January 28-29, 2000)
  • THE LONG WINTER - an adaptation waiting to happen. Includes photos from De Smet following the children's "blizzard walk" from school to town.
  • JOANNE WESTFIELD, premiere production Jan. 20-21, 2001.
  • LIST in progress of SHOWSTOPPER productions.
  • BABES IN TOYLAND, Barrett, December 2002
  • THE CEMETERY CLUB, Barrett, September 2003
  • ANNIE, Barrett, Summer 2004
  • THE SPITFIRE GRILL, Barrett, Summer 2006
  • Spookiest Spots in Pope County Bus Tour, October 2006
  • Brit Grit and Closely Knit: The Pope County Museum's Tour of the Glenwood Cemetery

    I know what you're thinking. "With fans like Rebecca..." What can I say? I write about the admirable, the good examples of the world. Screw up and I'll nail you. Just call me the Substance Kid.

  • The Dermot Mulroney Tidbit Page
  • Unbelievable treasure. Pictures of a young Christopher Walken doing Shakespeare at Stratford.
  • I am also the proud author of the original Brad Pitt FAQ
    I'm an ovarian cancer warrior (since July 18, 1996). (Fine, thanks). "Chemo and Me" follows one woman's nauseous journey from straight hair to curly.
  • Chemo and Me

    "P32" describes my experience with radioactive IP phosphorus (P32). This is not a common treatment (I don't think) but has been credited with lengthening remissions so I thought I'd put it someplace public.
  • Radioactive IP phorphorus (P32).
  • Here's what it's like to have a lung biopsy.
  • The Minnewaska Boys Basketball/Cheerleading Routines Page.
  • Nov. 2000 Youth Group trip to Willmar, featuring the Pool Boys.
  • Barsness Cemetary (or Lake Ben Cemetary)
  • Benson Tornado damage, June 2001.
  • THE storm, a Minnewaska dock-knocker, Monday, July 23, 2001.
  • A photo gallery of the gorgeous homes on Summit Avenue, St. Paul.
  • My page on great uncle Orin D. Haugen, a World War II hero.
  • July 2002 Glenwood Lutheran Church Youth Servant Trip to Chicago.
  • The real "Yours, Mine and Ours" family
  • The Smallest Slytherin (Slytherin fiction)
  • An Obedient House (Slytherin fiction)
  • Salazar's Orphans (Slytherin fiction)
  • Homeless treasures rescued from cyberspace

    I'm Rebecca Webb and I can be reached via e-mail at:
    webbrl@morris.umn.edu