Biography
About Becca
Becca Schall is a proud native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she began her acting training as a teenager in classes at the Guthrie Theatre and the Academy for Film and Television. Besides acting in many high school productions, she earned credits with several local theatre companies, including the Theatre in the Round Players, and performed for three consecutive summers in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. During high school she also developed a love for filmmaking, and wrote and directed a short film, "Animadversio", which won the grand prize in the "Below the Belt" young artists' video competition at the acclaimed Walker Art Center.
Becca then moved on to study theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, where she had the chance to work with top acting professors including Paul Austin, Doug MacHugh, and Michael Early, and trained in improv and stand-up comedy with Christine Farrell. In her junior year she was accepted into the British American Drama Academy in London, where she spent a year in conservatory-style training in both classical and contemporary theatre, and appeared as Ariel in "The Tempest" and Lear in "King Lear", directed by esteemed British actor Ben Benison.
Upon graduating from Sarah Lawrence, she relocated to New York City to further pursue an acting career. She has since performed in "The Moonlight Room" at Queens Theatre in the Park, been inducted as a member of The Actors Project NYC, and acted with The Queens Players at The Secret Theatre. Becca currently resides in Brooklyn, and is head-over-heels in love with New York!