Rebekah Maggor

Associate Editor, Massachusetts
Director, Program in Speaking and Learning, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University
Vice President, American Repertory Theatre Institute Alumni Association
Bio:Rebekah Maggor is an actress, playwright, and voice and speech specialist. She is founding director of the Program in Speaking and Learning at the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University where she researches the pedagogical history of rhetoric and oratory and develops methods to improve undergraduate speaking skills. She gives workshops and private consultation to Harvard professors and Teaching Fellows on public speaking and effective communication in the classroom. Maggor also teaches and coaches voice and speech in the theater. She is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and has coached regionally and on Broadway. She served as voice and speech coach on the recent Tony award-winning production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Her play, Two Days at Home Three Days in Prison, received a New Play Commission Grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, was selected for the Huntington Theatre Company's Breaking Ground Festival (with Pablo Schreiber in the role of Beni) and received readings at the New York Theatre Workshop (with Oscar Isaac as Beni), and the Old Vic Theatre in London. Her other writing includes How Do You Get the News? a solo performance exploring the Israeli perspective on the September 11th attacks (American Repertory Theatre, Aftermath production.), and Shakespeare’s Actresses in America, (upcoming at the Huntington Theatre in January 2008, past performances at the American Repertory Theatre, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, The Players Club, recipient Cambridge Arts Council Grant). As an actress, she has performed in the United States, Russia, Italy, and Israel and worked with directors including Anne Bogart, Peter Sellers, Andrei Serban, and Robert Woodruff. She is a former Huntington Theatre Company Playwriting Fellow and Middle Eastern Theater Project fellow. She holds a B.A. in drama and theatre arts from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in acting from the American Repertory Theatre.

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