BIO
My name is Rebecca Kopycinski (she/her/hers) and I am a classically-trained singer/composer, as well as a self-taught filmmaker and multimedia performance artist working in Somerville, Massachusetts.
My current creative focus is an elaborate and sprawling dystopian storyworld that unfolds through a series of multi-platform "Episodes." While each of these Episodes stands alone narratively, together they weave the ongoing saga of one protagonist, Reagan Esther Myer, across an expansive post-apocalyptic timeline set in the mid-1990s.
At the center of this world is ThotBot, a government-mandated, compulsory brain implant program instituted by a totalitarian regime known as The ULTRA, a group that seized control after Impact, an apocalyptic event that occurred on June 21, 1995. I’m working to make sense of the current chaotic world from the safety of this dystopian creation, exploring how themes of personal/collective trauma & memory/emotions/identity intersect with class disparity/imbalanced power structures/misinformation, and systemic injustice. I mean, it IS speculative fiction; it's easy to rip apart everything shitty about OUR society through the lens of this make-believe storyworld (and I do).
Please see my most recent resume for awards and performance history.
CONTACT
You can email me directly at GetThotBot@gmail.com.
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