Rebecca Moore (artist)

Rebecca Moore
Origin	New York, New York, U.S.
Genres	Alternative, experimental, ambient
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, musician, artist, activist, actress
Instruments	Violin, cello, piano
Years active	1984–present
Associated acts	Prevention of Blindness, Larry Rooster
Website	http://www.instituteforanimalhappiness.com

Rebecca Moore (born May 21, 1968 in New York City) is an American musician, actress and animal rights activist. Notable for her participation at a very young age in performance art and experimental theater productions()(), and for her own music, she is also known to some as a muse of the singer Jeff Buckley. She is the daughter of Peter Moore, a photographer of experimental art and artists in NYC (from the 1950s through his death in 1993) and his wife, Barbara, an art historian. After slightly over two decades of work devoted to experimental art, music and activist realms in NYC (1984-2007) Moore went to work in areas of animal rescue & care and animal rights advocacy.

Moore was born and raised amidst New York City's avant-garde art scene of the 1970s. She spent many years performing in experimental works by artists such as MacArthur Award Recipient John Jesurun, (including his plays Deep Sleep and Shatterhand Massacre, in the U.S. and Europe), MacArthur Award Recipient Richard Foreman (in his play, I've Got the Shakes (), Ridge Theater (including the Obie-winning production Everyday Newt Berman by composer John Moran and Jungle Movie), filmmaker/choreographer Jo Andres, Julia Heyward, David Patrick Kelly, Taj Mahal, Drag King Diane Torr, and more. When she was 15 years old, she began doing her own multi-media performance art pieces, sometimes solo and often with friends/collaborators such as Clarinda Mac Low() and Guy Yarden at city venues such as Performance Space 122(), Movement Research and Judson Church. These small pieces evolved into full-scale low-budget works; surrealist-inspired musical theater pieces with live music, where she wrote the scripts and music, built the sets, sewed and painted the costumes, made all the props, and ran the lights and sound cues. The casts often included her parent’s friends or her own; Fluxus artist Larry Miller and her then-partner Jeff Buckley appeared in "Cure for the Biting of a Madde Dogge", based on Olde English medical texts, presented by Franklin Furnace at Cooper Union and La Mama ETC in 1991-1992; Her piece, "The Hinger" (1993) also starred Mr. Miller and was produced at Performance Space 122, and a third piece, "The Larynx Chalet" (1996), was presented at La Mama ETC.

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