Rebecca Clark Carey is an American voice, text and accent coach with over 20 years of experience. After nearly a decade as a professional actress, she moved to the UK, where she earned her MA in Voice Studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Since then, Rebecca has worked extensively in the U.K. and the U.S. She has taught at the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Oxford School of Drama, and Italia Conti and was a senior voice tutor at RADA, where her students included Taron Egerton, Cynthia Erivo and Alexandra Roach.
Her theatre work includes accent coaching for Spring Storm by Tennessee Williams and Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill at the Royal and Derngate Theatre and the Royal National Theatre. She was the accent coach for the world premiere of Robert Schenkman’s All the Way at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and subsequent productions at the American Repertory Theatre and Broadway, where it won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. That production featured Bryan Cranston (who won a Best Actor Tony for the role of Lyndon B. Johnson).
As resident voice and text director and head of voice at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one of the largest not-for-profit theatres in the States, she has worked on over 50 productions, more than 20 of which were Shakespeare plays and 10 of which were world premieres.
Whether working on accents, voice or text, Rebecca sees herself as a facilitator to help actors express themselves with precision, authenticity, and ease.