Rebecca is a voice, text, and dialect specialist working across professional theatre, broadcast media, and higher education. Her coaching has been seen at major regional theatres including: McCarter Theatre Center, Primary Stages in New York, George Street Playhouse, and the Forestburgh Playhouse. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at East Carolina University where she teaches acting, voice and speech for the actor, and dialects in the BFA programs in Acting and Musical Theatre while coaching voice and dialects for departmental productions. She maintains an international private coaching studio working with actors and broadcast professionals across theatre, film, television, and news media.
As a voice and dialect coach, Rebecca’s work has been seen at major regional theatres including McCarter Theatre Center, George Street Playhouse, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Primary Stages in New York City, and the Forestburgh Playhouse, where she serves as a Resident Artist and Voice and Text Coach. Her coaching credits include The White Snake at McCarter Theatre, directed by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman, as well as American Hero, Trying, Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical, and the pre Broadway tryout of A Walk on the Moon by Pamela Gray and Paul Scott Goodman. She also coached dialects for Witness for the Prosecution and Julia Cho’s The Language Archive, where she created an original dialect based on a fictional language developed by the playwright. Most recently, she served as voice and dialect coach for the world premiere of Ibsen’s Ghost, written by and starring celebrated playwright and performer Charles Busch, in a co-production between Primary Stages in New York and George Street Playhouse.
Rebecca maintains an active private coaching studio serving clients across theatre, film, and television. In addition to coaching stage and screen actors, she collaborates with broadcast professionals at television news networks, including weekend anchors, meteorologists, political analysts, and on air journalists. Her coaching emphasizes the relationship between voice, text, and storytelling, helping performers and speakers communicate with clarity, specificity, and authenticity.
A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, Rebecca has performed across the country in theatre, musical theatre, and concert productions. Her national touring credits include: Fiddler on the Roof starring Theodore Bikel and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Michael Bolton, as well as touring as a featured vocalist with the Trans Siberian Orchestra in Christmas Eve and Other Stories. New York theatre credits include: he York Theatre Company, Raw Space, the Gene Frankel Theatre, and productions with the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Regional theatre audiences have seen her in roles such as Morticia in The Addams Family, Truvy in Steel Magnolias, Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, and Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles at the Forestburgh Playhouse, among many others. Rebecca has also directed professionally and educationally, including Shout! The Mod Musical for the Forestburgh Playhouse and Cuentos Del Arbol for Passage Theatre Company with students from Trenton’s El Centro.
An active educator and clinician, Rebecca has presented workshops and masterclasses for organizations including the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the Georgia and North Carolina Thespian Conferences, NJ Thespians, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, and the Springer Theatre Academy in Columbus, Georgia. She has served as a Resident Teaching Artist for McCarter Theatre Center, directing Shakespeare productions with elementary school students throughout the Princeton area, and has taught internationally for the International Young Theatre Festival in Bale, Croatia, working with students and teachers from across Europe.
Rebecca holds an MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University, where she was awarded the Joshua Logan Fellowship and received the Broward Palm Beach New Times Best Supporting Actress Award during her graduate training. She graduated magna cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a BA in Theatre and holds certification in Colaianni Speech and Phonetic Pillows Technique.