She recalls her early influences as being the land around her, harvest times, craw-fishing in the bayou, practicing piano after school, dancing with her mother and brothers and sister, and the close relationship to her black “mother” who cleaned for the Wells househol Rebecca Wells was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana. Early on, she fell in love with thinking up and acting in plays for her siblings-the beginnings of her career as an actress and writer for the stage. “I grew up,” she says, “in the fertile world of story-telling, filled with flamboyance, flirting, futility, and fear.” Surrounded by Louisiana raconteurs, a large extended family, and Our Lady of Prompt Succor’s Parish, Rebecca’s imagination was stimulated at every turn. Rebecca Wells was born and raised in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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