Since graduation, Rebecca's thesis, There and Back Again: Adventures in Genderland has attracted international attention: it is published in The Voice and Speech Review in September 2009; in March 2009 Rebecca presented it at Harvard University.
She has been academic tutor on the MA Voice Studies course at Central, and is principal voice instructor at Performers College, Essex. Rebecca also teaches accent softening at King Street College, London. In 2008 Rebecca spent time in the United States in collaboration with the San Francisco Voice Center.
She has privately coached poets, business people, academics, call centre staff and speech therapists.
Rebecca Root trained as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, following two seasons with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. She has close to two decades' professional experience across a range of platforms, including television, theatre, film and spoken word.
Amongst her many credits are appearances in Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions/ITV); Casualty (BBC Television); Keeping Up Appearances (BBC Television); The Detectives (Celador/BBC Television); Hamlet (Athens International Festival and Gielgud Theatre, directed by Peter Hall); The Lady's Not For Burning (UK tour), Tartuffe (Traffic of the Stage/Pentameters); The Shaughraun (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); Der Rosenkavalier (Royal Opera House) and The Sleeping Beauty (Mariinsky Ballet).
Rebecca is represented as an actor by
Janice Tildsley Associates
47 Orford Road, London, E17 9NJ
telephone 020 8521 1888
email: mail@rebeccaroot.co.uk
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