Rebecca Moore is a musician and actress from New York, United States, born in 1968. She grows up in New York’s 1970s avant-garde art scene as the daughter of art photographer Peter Moore and art historian Barbara Moore. She works in experimental music and experimental theatre, and her name is also closely associated with her relationship with Jeff Buckley.

Performance and theatre work

Moore spends many years performing in experimental theatre productions by a wide range of artists and companies. These include works by John Jesurun, including Deep Sleep and Shatterhand Massacre, presented in the United States and Europe; Richard Foreman’s I’ve Got the Shakes; Ridge Theater’s Obie-winning Everyday Newt Berman and Jungle Movie; and projects involving filmmaker and choreographer Jo Andres, Julia Heyward, David Patrick Kelly, Taj Mahal and Clarinda Mac Low.

Her own solo performance art, first shown in small venues, develops into low-budget surrealist musical theatre pieces that often include live music.

Music

From that performance work, Moore develops the band The Prevention of Blindness. She has two CD releases: Admiral Charcoal’s Song and Home Wreckordings 1997-1999. She is also working on a third release for the Oracles series on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.

Community activity

Moore becomes involved in social groups concerned with preserving the creative and cultural life of New York’s East Village and Lower East Side. These include the HOWL Festival, Take It to the Bridge, and LOCO (Ludlow-Orchard Community Organization), which she founds. She also takes part in housing demonstrations and anti-gentrification actions focused on preventing poorer communities from being displaced from New York City.