Rebecca Lingafelter

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.

Academic Credentials

MFA Columbia University 2005
BA University of California, San Diego 2000

Professional Experience

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.