Author - Rebecca Daniels

Rebecca Daniels (MFA, PhD) taught performance, writing, and speaking in liberal arts universities for over 25 years, including St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, from 1992-2015. She was the founding producing director of Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, and directed with many professional Portland theatre companies in the 1980s. She is the author of the groundbreaking Women Stage Directors Speak: Exploring the Effects of Gender on Their Work (McFarland, 1996, 2000) and has been published in multiple professional theatre journals. After her retirement from teaching, she began her association with Sunbury Press with Keeping the Lights on for Ike: Daily Life of a Utilities Engineer at AFHQ in Europe During WWII; or, What to Say in Letters Home When You're Not Allowed to Write about the War (Sunbury Press, 2019), a book based on her father’s letter home from Europe during WWII. She had always known she was adopted, but it was only as retirement approached, and with a friend’s encouragement, that she began the search for her genetic heritage through DNA testing. Finding Sisters (Sunbury Press, forthcoming fall 2021) explores how DNA testing, combined with traditional genealogical research, helped her find her genetic parents, two half-sisters (one maternal; one paternal), and other relatives in spite of being given up for a closed adoption at birth. She is currently working on a new memoir about her late-in-life second marriage and sudden widowhood called Adventures with the Bartender: Finding and Losing the Love of my Life in Six Short Years.