Rebecca Frank

Rebecca Frank is a director, producer, and actor with a rich history in theater across New York City, New Orleans, and Atlanta. She began working professionally in tv and film as a child, fell in love with theatre and continues to place the process of  powerful storytelling  at the center of her work.  As an actor she worked professionally at the   Shakespeare Festival at Tulane: Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Coriolanus, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Comedy of Errors, and Macbeth. With Ego-Po Philadelphia: The Maids With Southern Repertory Theatre: Pride and Prejudice,  Yuletide, and at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré:  Crimes of the Heart.   With In Good Company: The Maids (Best of New Orleans, 2018),  She has directed notable productions including The Skriker (Tulane University), Microcrisis,  Perfect Arrangement, When We Were Young and Unafraid, Stick Fly, The Hot L Baltimore,  (Stella Adler Studios, NYC), Girls Who Drew Horses (NOLA Fringe), and Whistling Psyche (Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta).  In 2015, Frank co-founded In Good Company Theatre in New Orleans  staging  both original and classic works, notably The Tempest (featured in The New Yorker, August 2005) and The House of Bernarda Alba (Best Ensemble, 2016).  For 20 years, Rebecca has worked as an arts integration specialist, bringing  creative practices into K-12 classrooms, after school school programs and museums  as well as creating original arts/ academic curriculum as a means to engage students with their own agency through  the power of  creative learning.  She worked as an adjunct professor for two years in Tulane University's Theatre and Dance department, and served as the Director of Arts Integration at an arts based middle school in Manhattan.   With middle school students, Rebecca produces and directs the work of  Shakespeare.    Rebecca served as a Directing Apprentice with Elevator Repair Service Theatre in NYC, and  continues to direct for the evening conservatory program at  Stella Adler Studios in NYC.  Her directing work has earned Big Easy Award nominations, and has been featured in The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and The New Yorker Magazine. A BFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and holding an MFA in Directing from Tulane University, she has trained extensively with The Actors Center and  The SITI Company.  Before returning to live in New Orleans this summer,  Rebecca will be performing in Nirvana; an original work by Christopher-Rashee Stevenson this upcoming summer in NYC.