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. She is currently in the process of completing internationally-recognized certification as an Intimacy Director with IDC.
Becca has extensive professional experience as an actor, fight director, intimacy director, and lighting designer, among other areas. She has worked in all these areas as a teaching artist for many years, in professional, community, and academic settings. Her most recent academic appointment prior to relocating to Edinburgh in 2023 was as lecturer in Stage Combat at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She currently teaches workshops throughout the Edinburgh theatre community, and works as a tutor in the Department of English Literature and Edinburgh Futures Institute at Edinburgh Uni.
You can find her online at rcmahar.net and speakthespeech.blog, or on instagram at @rcmahar / @speakthespeechblog. She is also a reviewer for All Edinburgh Theatre.
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
Wednesday 28 February - Saturday 02 March 2024
“Hold still and focus for there, is life” - Ryan Scott Oliver
Position: Intimacy Director
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
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
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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
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
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
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Know what you want, go and get it.
Position: Faciliator
Wednesday 12 March - Saturday 15 March 2025
"But how will we know what to do if our parents don’t tell us?"
Position: Intimacy & Fight Director
Wednesday 19 March 2025
Get ready to relive your Year Six/Middle School glory days at Bedlam Theatre with the ultimate nostalgic school disco...
Position: Welfare Contact
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 29 March 2025
The Spanish Society presents: Lorca’s “impossible” play.
Position: Intimacy Consultant