BIOGRAPHY
Rebekah Maggor
Rebekah Maggor is a playwright, actress and voice and speech specialist. Her play Two Days at Home Three Days in Prison received readings at the Huntington Theatre Company, the New York Theatre Workshop, and the Old Vic Theatre in London. She performed her one-woman play Shakespeare's Actresses in America at the Huntington Theatre, the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, The Players Club, and the American Repertory Theatre. Maggor has received commissions or grants from the Catalyst Collaborative @ M.I.T., the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Cambridge Arts Council, the Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellowship, and the Middle Eastern Theater Project. As an actress she has worked with directors Robert Woodruff, Peter Sellers, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, János Szász and others. As a voice and speech specialist she has coached on Broadway, in regional theater, for film and television, and been a dialect consultant for PBS and NPR. She is an Associate Editor of the International Dialects of English Archive and an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Maggor teaches public speaking at Harvard College and is founding director of the Derek Bok Center’s Program in Speaking and Learning at Harvard University. She is a founding member and current president of the A.R.T. Institute Alumni Association. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.F.A. from the American Repertory Theatre.