Becky Mezzanotte-Blizard
Becky Mezzanotte-Blizard (or Becky Mezz as she is commonly called) is a content and marketing specialist. She is a beauty pageant contestant turned ballerina turned musician turned actor turned filmmaker/photographer turned graduate of the International Media program at American University. A Baltimore native, Becky spent six years working for Leftfield Media as the Marketing Manager for the Anime Portfolio and the Programming Manager for the Comic Portfolio. She is currently an AV Webinar Producer for PCORI and the Business Manager for Forward Frame Media.
Much of her free time is spent at the ice rink practicing jumps and spins. Sometimes you can catch her in hockey skates with a hockey stick. She also spends time shooting photographs, reading books, obsessing over British and Korean TV shows, and traveling wherever her feet may take her. She has lived in Prague and Cairo and traveled much further. She likes to travel with her skates. Her craziest adventure involved driving to Toronto with her best friend to see her favorite K-Pop band, SHINee.
She is the director and producer of several short films, many of which were submissions for the Baltimore 48-Hour Film Project. She is also a former props designer in the DC theater scene and the former production manager for Nu Sass Productions.
Her opinions can be found as a contributing writer to Sutradhar’s Market and her photography can be seen featured for History Matters/ Back to the Future for their event “Scenes from Historic Women Playwrights: Read by Luminaries of the Stage” event in 2012. She is also a contributing writer to Adults Skate Too, a figure skating blog dedicated to adult skaters.
Education:
Master of Arts, International Media – American University School of Communication
Bachelor of Arts, International Studies – American University School of International Service
Bachelor of Arts, Film and Media Studies – American University School of Communication
Random Facts:
Loves thrill rides and adventures, Loves Halloween, Adult figure skater & hockey player
Current Research Subject :
NHL Hockey (Washington Capitals) & Sports Fan Culture
Words to Live By:
“What stops you here, stops your entire life.” -Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
Mentions of Becky in the Media
Curls Studio: Awesome Con 2019 Recap
Nu Sass takes on Karl Marx and wins. Marx in Soho (review)
Tame. Powerful Shrew re-do from Avant Bard (review)
Review: A Bid to Save the World at Rorschach Theatre
In the life-without-death play ‘A Bid to Save the World,’ oranges are the new black
Rorschach’s Bid to Save the World (review)
The audience controls the action in ‘Happy Hour,’ and, yes, you get a drink
Happy Hour at Spooky Action (review) Brilliant live-action gaming
BWW Review: Spooky Action Theater Rewrites History with COLLABORATORS
‘Collaborators’: Spooky Action Theater spins a semi-absurdist tale
2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Our Lady of the Clouds’
Twists and turns 