Photo by Effie Bowen
Francis Weiss Rabkin is a writer and performance maker interested in multidisciplinary theater drawing from poetry, dance, visual art, and academic contexts. Their plays and collaborations have been presented in Philadelphia, Chicago, and in New York at HERE Arts, Dixon Place, Bushwick Starr, and the Prelude Festival. Together with Leslie Allison, they co-founded the performance collective, Tight Braid Group. They are honored to have received residencies at Naropa University, the Wassaic Project, the Millay Colony, the Drama League of New York, and Dixon Place. Their play, Won't be a Ghost, premieres at Brooklyn's The Brick in April 2016.