Rebecca Mahar

Rebecca is a multi-hyphenate, award-winning theatre artist, educator, and scholar. She holds Bachelors degrees in Theatre and History, a diploma in Classical Acting from LAMDA, Master of Fine Arts degrees in Acting and Lighting Design, and is currently pursuing her PhD in European Theatre. Additionally, she is recognized as an Advanced Actor-Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and a Consent-Forward Artist with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. Becca has extensive professional experience as an actor, fight director, intimacy director, and lighting designer, among other areas. You can find her online at rcmahar.net

Projects

"The Welkin " by Lucy Kirkwood

Wednesday 08 November - Saturday 11 November 2023

Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. ...

Position: Fight and Intimacy Director

"35mm: A Musical Exhibition" by Ryan Scott Oliver

Wednesday 28 February - Saturday 02 March 2024

“Hold still and focus for there, is life” - Ryan Scott Oliver

Position: Intimacy Director

"Mother Clap's Molly House" by Mark Ravenhill

Wednesday 13 March - Saturday 16 March 2024

It’s London 1726, and Mrs. Tull’s got problems. The whores are giving her a hard time, a man in a dress is looking fo...

Position: Intimacy Director

"A Taste of Honey" by Shelagh Delaney

Wednesday 20 March - Friday 22 March 2024

“My usual self is a very unusual self, Geoffrey Ingram, and don’t you forget it!” Manchester, 1958. The leaden Irwel...

Position: Intimacy Director

"Intoxicated Honeymoon" by Victoria Ge

Thursday 03 October - Friday 04 October 2024

Oh dear; we say things, we make choices, we go on with our lives. But what if that edgy and cynical teenagehood of yo...

Position: Intimacy and Fight Director

"1984" by George Orwell

Wednesday 09 October - Saturday 12 October 2024

The Edinburgh University Theatre Company presents 1984 - Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall Jr. and William A. M...

Position: Intimacy & Fight Director

"The Boys In The Band" by Mart Crowley

Wednesday 23 October - Saturday 26 October 2024

In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old...

Position: Intimacy and Fight Director