Rebecca has a rare skill set as a designated Linklater Voice teacher (1 of 400 in the world), an accent, dialect and speech coach and is on the frontline as a performer as both an actor and professional jazz singer and recording artist.

She has a BA in Drama from Duke University, cum laude, and an MFA in Acting from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She spent many years acting in New York City and regionally throughout the United States, on stage and on the small screen.

Rebecca, who grew up with a jazz pianist father, has dedicated the last fifteen years to recording and performing with a trio and currently has six albums on the Summit Records label. You can find her albums on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, amazon and on her website: www.rebeccadumaine.com.

Rebecca has taught Voice and Speech at NYU, Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Pace University, The Maggie Flanigan and Bill Esper Studios and in the graduate acting programs at Columbia and The Actors Studio, where she designed the speech curriculum.

She currently teaches voice and speech, on-camera audition and dialects in the MFA program at Academy of Art University in San Francisco and has a flourishing private practice.

Rebecca has worked with actors and business professionals in accent reduction work, dialect acquisition and mastery and has prepared numerous actors for graduate school, on-camera and stage auditions. Rebecca regularly teaches business professionals and is on the faculty of performance coaches for the Australia Bar Association’s annual advocacy program for in court lawyers.

Rebecca has voice, dialect and music directed theatre productions in NYC and continues to direct high school productions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rebecca is also a certified Barre3 instructor.