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Rebecca Lingafelter

Professor of Theatre

Fir Acres Theatre 103, MSC: 54

Rebecca Lingafelter is a performer, director, producer and teacher living in Portland, OR. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she studied with Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban and Kristin Linklater. In New York she performed at Classic Stage Company, PS122, The Ontological Hysteric Incubator, HERE Arts Center, The Bushwick Starr, The Chocolate Factory, Judson Church, Vortex Theatre Company, Target Margin Theatre, and The Metropolitan Opera. She has performed internationally in Korea, Germany, Italy, England and Budapest, Hungary. She was co-artistic director of experimental theatre ensemble Performance Lab 115 from 2005-2010, and was lead-artist for PL115’s six-month residency with Mabou Mines mentored by Ruth Maleczech.

In Portland, Rebecca is co-artistic director of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (www.petensemble.org), and a company member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Recent work includes performing in a new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, a devised work inspired by the photography of Robert Frank, The Americans, Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane and Cardiac Organ: A Goth Cabaret. She directed a devised performance of work created by students in Reiko Hillyer’s Inside/Out Prison Exchange class, I Think of You, at Portland Center Stage in August of 2023.

Rebecca teaches acting, directing, devised performance, voice and movement, global contemporary performance, and directs mainstage productions.

Her work with PETE includes The Deception Unit, [or, the whale] (Ahab), R3 (Buckingham), Song of the Dodo (Dodo), and Three Sisters (Olga). Locally Rebecca has worked with Third Rail Rep where she is a core company member (Belleville, Collapse, That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad), Profile Theatre (The Fifth of July, Knowing Cairo), and CoHo (DB,Grounded). Directing credits include Revolt. She Said. Revolt, Again, Lungs, The Angry Brigade, and The Realistic Joneses (Third Rail), Bright Half Life (Profile) Peter and the Starcatcher (Portland Playhouse), and Procedures for Saying No (PETE). Rebecca is a proud member of Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA.

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A Modern Take on a Horror Classic: Sweeney Todd Opens November 2

Sweeney Todd, a collaboration between the music and theatre departments, opens on November 2. Director Rebecca Lingafelter has transformed the traditional setting of Fleet Street into a post-apocalyptic, subterranean world where the audience and student orchestra will sit among the actors. The musical will feature Liam Beveridge BA ’20 as Sweeney in his first-ever singing role.

Chekhov in the 21st Century: A Symposium

The Symposium, organized by the Lewis & Clark Theatre faculty Rebecca Lingafelter and Štĕpán Šimek in collaboration with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, will feature readings of Professor Šimek’s new translations of Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard. In addition there will be presentations and panel discussions on Chekhov in contemporary translation, Chekhov’s dramaturgy, Chekhov in performance, and Chekhov in contemporary Russia with scholars and artists from across the country.

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Assistant Professor of Theatre Rebecca Lingafelter named Teacher of the Year

Students name Assistant Professor of Theatre Rebecca Lingafelter the Teacher of the Year. Watch her acceptance speech in this short video.

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Theatre faculty, students bring contemporary translation of Chekhov to life

With help from a handful of Lewis & Clark students and alumni, as well as resources from Fir Acres Theatre, Professor of Theatre Štěpán Šimek and Assistant Professor of Theatre Rebecca Lingafelter will stage a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, returning to the “fierce sparseness” of the original Russian in a new English translation.

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Theatre professors collaborate to bring Russian play to life

Assistant Professor of Theatre Rebecca Lingafelter, a founding member of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE), recently received a $6,000 Regional Arts & Culture Council grant for an upcoming production.

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