About Rebecca

Rebecca is excited to be returning to ASFG for her sixth year. She approaches theatre education as a holistic life skill, and considers drama to be an essential tool to help us better understand ourselves and our relationship to the world by building empathy. She approaches theatre from a physical foundation, with questions of how the performance of our physical body can lead to important psychological discoveries for both the characters we build in our imaginations, and the people we call our Selves. 

Rebecca believes that to make theatre is to examine life and what it means to be human; in that regard, curiosity in all disciplines is essential to the craft. She strives to instill a sense of wonder/ing in her students, holding the idea that complete art (Gesamtkunstwerk) requires foundational knowledge in as much as possible. To that end, she enjoys incorporating philosophy, history, sociology, science, mindfulness, math, and more to give students a springboard from which to create, and a frame of reference on being. 

Rebecca has been working professionally as a director, designer, performer, and teacher in the theatre since 2005, where she began her career touring both nationally and internationally with the Missoula Children's Theatre. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Montana in 2013.