Rebekah has directed theatre productions at the American Repertory Theatre, the Huntington Theatre, PEN America World Voices Festival, Golden Thread Theatre, and Rose Bruford College, among others. She has also served as a voice, speech, and dialect coach on Broadway, in regional theatres, and film, and television. She has coached actors such as David Harbour, Kathleen Turner, and Bill Irwin (Tony Award, Best Actor).
Research
Rebekah’s research centers on political drama, collaborative theatre-making, and translation. She co-edited, co-translated and wrote the introduction to the anthology Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution (Seagull Books), which received a Literature in Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has published reviews and articles in Modern Drama, Arab Stages, The Voice and Speech Review, American Theatre Magazine, The Mercurian, and presented at the ASTR, IFTR, and VASTA conferences. She is working on a collection of new Palestinian drama in translation, Theatre Between Home and Exile: New Plays from Palestine.
Leading a voice & speech warm-up with Harvard College students.
Teaching
As a researcher and artist, Rebekah has taught academic and practical courses on the undergraduate and postgraduate level at Harvard, Cornell, Vanderbilt, and Rose Bruford College. She has taught lecture and seminar courses on contemporary world theatre, theatre of protest and revolution, Middle Eastern theatre, and drama in translation. She has taught studio courses in voice & speech, and acting techniques including Stanislavski, Knebel’s Active Analysis, Practical Aesthetics, and Shakespeare. She has also directed and facilitated numerous student productions, including several English-language world premieres of new Arabic drama.
Dancing is a Sin, Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
Translation
As a translator, Rebekah has received grants and commissions 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, the Catalyst Collaborative @ M.I.T., the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Middle Eastern Theater Project.
Public Engagement
She has curated and produced performances, public talks, workshops, and master classes with international artists, scholars and activists at numerous institutions.