Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968) is a British playwright, screenwriter and former actress. She is best known as the author of Her Naked Skin (2008), which was the first original play written by a living female playwright to be performed on the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre. Several of Lenkiewicz's plays have been published individually, and in 2013, Faber & Faber published a collection of her works. Early life and education Lenkiewicz was born in Plymouth, Devon, to Celia Mills and Peter Quint, a playwright. Her stepfather is the artist Robert Lenkiewicz. Her sister is the artist Alice Lenkiewicz, and her brother is the artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, who are both the children of Robert Lenkiewicz. Her other brothers are Peter Mills and Thomas Mills. She attended Hyde Park Junior School and then Plymouth High School for Girls before progressing to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989, then later to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1996 to 1999. Initially she worked as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, notably in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Bacchae.