{"id":1472,"date":"2015-11-04T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/?page_id=1472"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:54:22","slug":"rebecca-miller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artsadmin\/alumni\/alumni-profiles\/rebecca-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Miller Kratzer (’17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rebecca Miller Kratzer is a theater and opera director currently enrolled in Columbia University’s School of the Arts MFA Directing Candidate Class of 2021. Her work aims to bring the scale and gravitas of opera to theatre, and the intimacy and moment-to-moment truth of theatre to opera, rendering both forms awe-inspiring, relevant, and accessible.<\/p>\n

As the former Artistic Director of the NEMPAC Opera Project, Rebecca produced fully-staged opera accompanied by chamber orchestra in historic Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall. With the NEMPAC Opera Project,\u00a0Rebecca produced and stage directed Mozart’s<\/em> Don Giovanni<\/em> (June 2018),\u00a0\u00a0Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio<\/em>(June 2017) and La Cenerentola <\/em>(June 2016), as well as assistant stage directed and fight choreographed La Boh\u00e8me <\/em>(June 2015), and served as the program and stage director for NEMPAC\u2019s Summer Children\u2019s Musical Theater during summer 2014.<\/p>\n

Other directing credits include the East Coast premiere of Matthew Aucion’s Second Nature<\/em> (Opera
\ndel West),\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the vibrator play<\/em> (The Footlight Club),\u00a0Handel’s Alcina<\/em> (Opera del West), a staged reading of Sean Crawford\u2019s Blue Moon <\/em>(Hub Theatre Co.), three short plays for The Boston Theater Marathon, Open Theatre Project\u2019s SLAMBoston, and Trinity Repertory Company’s Write Here, Write Now! <\/em>Festival, and Speech & Debate<\/em>, and Children of Eden<\/em>\u00a0(Brandeis University).<\/p>\n

Associate directing credits include the developmental stages of OperaHub’s DIVAS <\/em>(formerly Trunk Show<\/em>). Assistant directing credits include Dog Paddle <\/em>(Bridge Rep of Boston, dir. Guy Ben-Aharon), Mud Blue Sky<\/em> (Bridge Rep of Boston, dir. Bridget Kathleen O’Leary), The Love of the Nightingale<\/em> (Hub Theatre Co.), and Oliver! <\/em>(Trinity Rep, dir. Richard and Sharon Jenkins). She also fight choreographed Coyote on a Fence,\u00a0<\/em>“ART”<\/em>\u00a0 and The Love of the Nightingale<\/em> with Hub Theatre Co. of Boston, and curated and moderated talkback series for Bridge Rep\u2019s productions of The Forgetting Curve<\/em>, Julius Caesar<\/em>,\u00a0Salom\u00e9, <\/em>and Mrs. Packard<\/em>, which she also dramaturged.<\/p>\n

Rebecca has worked at a variety of theatre companies and arts organizations, including the Isabella Stewart Garnder Museum, where she spent two and a half years in the Development Department planning and executing special events, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Trinity Repertory Company, The North End Music & Performing Arts Center, The Katz Company, The Broadway League, and The Actors Fund.<\/p>\n

Rebecca received her BA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University and has a Certificate in Arts Administration from Boston University.<\/p>\n

\u201c The arts administration program at Boston University provided me with valuable and tangible skills that I carry with me as an artist and administrator. I’ve also met a cohort of talented and driven peers who I now count as colleagues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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