Rebecca Bloom grew up right here in the South Bay in Manhattan Beach, attending Mira Costa High School and performing in some of Mira Costa’s drama productions. After NYU and a stint writing for Saturday Night Live, she gained fame with her musical comedy albums Please Love Me and Suck It, Christmas. Several of her online videos from these albums are available on Youtube, and although I will refrain from listing their names (one or two may be considered vulgar), I’d highly recommend you watch them. Hilarious.
Bloom’s big, breakout success was Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a musical television comedy about a mentally deranged but sympathetic perfectionist who leaves her supposedly-perfect life in NYC to move to California in stealth pursuit of her ex-boyfriend from summer camp. (They were together back when she was a teenager, but she still pathologically pines for him.) The premise is bizarre, and the main character’s actions are so outrageous that the audience often cringes, but the show is funny and and tremendously creative. The musical scenes are so good you’ll try to search the lyrics online so you don’t miss even one funny line. FotE is about to finish season one and looking forward to more.