About

London & Paris-based theatre artist & communication expert.

Rebekah is Director of Product Research & Development at Airtime, a Sequoia-backed video presentation startup, where, for the past four years, she has reported to CEO/founder Phil Libin.

Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Theatre & Performance at Cornell University and Founding Director of the Program in Speaking and Learning at Harvard University.

Rebekah is an experienced theatre director and leadership communication strategist. She has worked as a voice and dialect coach for actors on Broadway and as a persuasive speaking consultant for executives, politicians, religious leaders, artists, academics, educators, and anyone for whom public speaking plays a key vocational role.

Clients include Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Random House Books, Harvard Law School, Vanderbilt Medical School, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and many others.

At Airtime, she leads the experimental research arm of the company. As a member of the product team, she collaborates with design, engineering, sales, customer support, finance and marketing to research and implement a wholistic vision for Airtime as a radical new medium of communication for the hybrid world of work. She looks for ways to integrate the core elements of storytelling: rigorous structure, visual engagement, and captivating delivery within augmented virtual ecosystems. As a product researcher and strategist, her goal is to make video presentations intuitively and seamlessly dialogic, communal, and versatile. To read more about her work at mmhmm see her blog: “Restaged: Connecting in a Distributed Age.”

As a theatre artist and translator, Rebekah has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Doris Duke Foundation Building Bridges Program, the Mellon Foundation’s TCG Global Connections award, the Radcliffe Institute, the Huntington Playwriting Fellows, the Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Catalyst Collaborative @ M.I.T.

She has directed productions and workshops at the Huntington Theatre Company, the American Repertory Theater, PEN America World Voices Festival, Golden Thread Theatre, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, Cornell University, and Rose Bruford College.

As a voice, speech and dialect specialist, she has coached on Broadway, in regional theatres and film and television. She has taught acting, voice & speech, and drama in translation.

Her first book, Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution (Seagull Books) is an anthology of new plays in translation. She is currently working on a second anthology of translated plays, Khashabi Theatre in Haifa: Palestinian Consciousness in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization.

She holds a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from Columbia University and an MFA in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School. She earned a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Theatre Training from Harvard and is certified in Voice and Speech Pedagogy by the Fitzmaurice Institute.