1^st lesson free

Rebecca

Rate $75
Response 24h
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Number of students Rebecca has taught since their arrival at Superprof
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Number of students Rebecca has taught since their arrival at Superprof

$75/h

1^st lesson free

Singing
Vocal coach

Broadway Singer with MFA and 20 years experience (who made Broadway debut from an Open Call) can help you free your unique voice, through placement and authentic acting!

Singing
Vocal coach

Lesson location

- At Rebecca's house: Baldwin
- online

About Rebecca

Rebecca Larkin is a Broadway singer and actor, filmmaker, and theatre educator with twenty years of experience. She served as the Education Director at Timber Lake Playhouse, where she designed a Musical Theatre curriculum for a series of instructional videos called Timber Lake Teaches. She completed her MFA in Performing Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design, as the only female recipient of the Presidential Scholarship for Vocal Performance and has an undergraduate degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Arts and Education. Rebecca Larkin resides in New York where she develops her own work and continues to audition for and perform in current projects.

Broadway: South Pacific (Dir. Bartlett Sher), Avenue Q (Tour, Dir. Jason Moore). Selected Theatre Credits: Barbie Live in Fairytopia (First National Tour, OCR, Dir. Eric Schaeffer), Disney's Twice Charmed (World Premiere, OCR, Dir. Joe Calarco), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (Lincoln Center, Dir. Lonny Price), Avenue Q (Ogunquit Playhouse, Dir. Keith Andrews/ Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Dir. Nick Minas), Rent (Westchester Broadway, Dir. Patricia Wilcox), Jewtopia (Florida Company of Off-Broadway Production), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Actors' Playhouse/ St. Michael's Playhouse/ TheatreZone/ Waterfront Playhouse), Miss Saigon (Westchester Broadway/ Gateway Playhouse), The Wedding Singer (Gateway Playhouse). She has performed in cabarets and concerts at the Metropolitan Room, the Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and Urban Stages. She wrote, co-produced, co-directed, and starred in a short film, "The Rub." Selected Film Credits: Melissa & Dave, Amadi Comes Home, The Mariner's Revenge, Understanding Conflict.

Rebecca Larkin is cataloged as an author in the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center for her caricatures depicting past theatrical productions, which can be viewed in the Billy Rose Theatre Division. Proud member of Actors' Equity and represented by Frontier Booking International.

About the lesson

I try to be both supportive and pragmatic, based on where your skill set is right now and what your specific goals are. I take a full body, whole person approach to both singing and acting. While there are some specifics of technical mastery in each field, the process of how you are doing it is never more important than being in the moment and simply doing it.

Fitzmaurice Voicework is the base I teach to connect the things we think and the things we feel with the breath, which allows for authentic acting and singing. By learning exercises that improve body awareness and alignment, because your body is your instrument, it sets students up to eventually flow easily between "techniques." More than "learning how to breathe better" or "controlling your diaphragm" which are common ways people speak about singing and breathing sometimes, it has been my experience that learning to think about the process differently, training through a less direct path, yields far more authentic results in the long run and avoids creating new vocal problems or acting blocks.

When we are focusing specifically on improving your singing, I will teach you warm ups, vocal exercises, and we will work on placement, which is where you are "placing" or concentrating energy in your head when you are singing, and this is what changes the quality of your voice. Placing the sound forward in the face results in more "ping" and a contemporary sound, while placing it further back produces a more resonant, legit quality. Usually we pick a song to use as a vehicle for creating new vocal habits, but oftentimes people are also actively auditioning, so we can also work on a song we choose together to use your current skills to their best advantage, if you need material immediately.

If we will be working across the internet, I will send you recordings of the piano scales we will use and if we need accompaniment tracks, we can find those online sometimes, or commission a custom track for your needs. You playing the music you are singing with on your end entirely works much better than my trying to play and sync with you through both of our devices. If we are working live at my home studio in Long Island, then I will play the warm up exercises and we will still use tracks for the full songs.

As for acting, we will have a brief conversation before the first lesson so I can get a sense about you and I'll use that to select material to try out. I will send you a few scenes to practice before the first day and we will read them together to see where you are at. I don't believe there is any one acting method that is "the best." There is only what speaks to you and helps YOU. Acting techniques are tools to help you access parts of yourself that have always been there. They are never more important than being in the moment or listening to and reacting to the other actors and stimuli around you. We will also learn to analyze the text and find the clues you need as an actor to identify the strongest and most interesting choices.

Acting for the stage and screen, ideally, are rooted in the same place. There are distinct stylistic differences, in terms of using the space and form of each medium to its most effective advantage. At the beginning stages though, they can feel like entirely separate entities, and the basic points of entry are different as well. As someone who started on stage and leaned to adapt to the screen as a working professional, I have a lot of experience in leading students through these transitions.

My passion is creating audition cuts and crafting them into bite-sized yet complete scenes. Audition technique is key if you want to be in shows because someone has to cast you for you to even get the opportunity to practice your craft. Over 95% of my professional jobs have been from open auditions, including securing the agency I am currently represented by and my Broadway debut.

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This first lesson offered with Rebecca will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.

Broadway Singer with MFA and 20 years experience (who made Broadway debut from an Open Call) can help you free your unique voice, through placement and authentic acting!

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Broadway Singer with MFA and 20 years experience (who made Broadway debut from an Open Call) can help you free your unique voice, through placement and authentic acting!

Lesson location

About Rebecca

About the lesson

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Rate

Pack rates

online

free lessons

Rebecca's Video

Other tutors in Singing

Nicole

Shannon

Brett

Piper

Jayla

Leah

Bhojenarine

Kristin

Meher

Joseph

David

Linda

Eduardo

Arina

Maiya

Cristian

David

Brandon

Jamie

Eli

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