Rebecca Fletcher's performing career began at the Santa Monica Playhouse, a Los Angeles repertory company specializing in original musicals. From age seven to fourteen, she performed in over fifteen main-stage productions at the Playhouse, receiving critical acclaim particularly for her lead performances in Moonlight Madness, Mezzanine, Computers Don't Cry and The Clown Prince. The Los Angeles Times called her portrayal of Moonlight Madness's Barbara, "natural, intelligent, and assured" (Los Angeles Times, August, 1979).

At age fifteen, Rebecca moved to Jerusalem with her family, attending the prestigious High School Next to the Hebrew University. She quickly became fluent in Hebrew, and performed as a singer and actress in cabarets across the city. Moving a year later to New York, Rebecca enrolled in the Ramaz Upper School, where she strengthened her skills in Jewish text; four years later, she received a BA in English Literature from Brown University (BA with honors, 1990).

Upon graduation, Rebecca moved back to Jerusalem, where, for the next five years, she performed with Bell Canto at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, and with Improvokatzia (an improv theater ensemble) at venues across the country. She also studied voice with Maestro Dov Kaplan. Rebecca considers her post-graduate year in acting at The School for Visual Theater, a conservatory for non-Western performance, seminal to her aesthetic vision.

With these Hebrew and theater skills under her belt, Rebecca was hired to facilitate training for the Israeli communications company, Seminars for Communication. Together with Seminars founder, Ron Shleifer, Rebecca taught public speaking, communication skills, and interpersonal business success to such institutions as the Israeli army, Dan Hotels, and Egged bus lines. In addition, she worked for the Israeli and Diaspora divisions of Melitz, facilitating intensive, informal education seminars for high school students in Zionism, Judaism, and the Arab/Israeli conflict. Rebecca was privileged to spend her summers teaching both for Nesiyah, a six-week arts program for North American and Israeli high school students, and for camp Ramah, where she taught acting to Israeli pre-teens.

In 1996, Rebecca moved back to New York, and began a long and fruitful relationship with Dr. Michael Warren, her voice teacher to this day. Inspired by her acceptance into The New School's jazz vocals program, Rebecca formed a trio, and regularly performed at Cafe Creole, a West Village Jazz venue. A year later, looking to combine her musical and Judaic passions, she decided to shift directions and enter the cantorate. Rebecca was accepted into Hebrew Union College's School of Sacred Music, and received a four-year Wexner Graduate Fellowship. Hebrew Union College honored Rebecca with awards in hazzanut, vocal arts, and philosophic thought; she earned a Masters in sacred music and was invested as a cantor in 2001. That same year, Rebecca conceived, co-wrote and performed in Mosaic Fixations, an ensemble theater piece presented by the JCC of the Upper West Side.

Rebecca has amassed a wealth of cantorial experience, both on and off the bima. During the three years she spent as cantor of Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation of Washington Heights (2003- 2006), she presented numerous divrey Torah and sermons-in-song, taught adult-education classes on Jewish music, the Torah service, the Megillot, and rabbinic thought, and facilitated workshops on midrash, storytelling and music for children of all ages. Rebecca also enjoyed serving as cantor of Temple Judea, in Massapequa, Long Island (2001), as well as her one-year term as cantor and arts organizer for Greenburgh Hebrew Center, in Dobbs Ferry (2002). Other highlights include: organizing a community-wide, Hanukah arts event for Greenburgh Hebrew Center, and leading a workshop in spiritual preparation for the High Holidays at Stanford University (High Holiday cantor, 2002). In September, 2006, Rebecca began a new chapter in her cantorial career, as the cantor and adult education coordinator of Temple Israel, in Staten Island.

Between 2003 and 2004, Rebecca performed two original cabaret shows, Songs of Love and Sacred and Swing at synagogues in Reading, PA, Long Island, and upstate New York. In June, 2004 and 2005, she was headlined as The Cabaret Artist in the Washington Heights Arts Stroll, a festival of the arts for Upper Manhattan, performing the first year with the Sephardic music ensemble, Alhambra, in Pearls and Rubies, and the second year, together with Cantors Raphael Frieder and David Katz in Grit and Glamour Cabaret. Rebecca's newest works include the one-woman show, Home, first performed in workshop productions at Hebrew Union College, in November, 2002 and at Ripley Greere Studios in June, 2003 -- and The New Jew Cabaret, which was performed at Hebrew Tabernacle, in June, 2005. Developed under the auspices of the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y Artists-in-Residence Program and on the basis of her research in Berlin, Rebecca recently created Degenerate!, an exploration of German cabaret from 1921 through the Holocaust. Degenerate! was performed at Makor in February, 2005.

During the past decade, Rebecca has trained in dance at Studio Maestro, in German and French repertoire with Nico Castel, and in traditional cantorial music with Cantor Faith Steinsnyder. She has also trained with the SITI Company, known for their rigorously physical, stunningly visual performance, in Meisner work at the William Esper Studios (NYC), and in movement at the Michael Checkov Studios (NYC). In 2006-07, Rebecca studied clown work and scene study at the Actors Center (NYC); this fall, she continues her acting training with master teacher Scott Freeman at his private acting studio.

In January 2006, Rebecca was invited to premier her newest work, KLEYNKUNST! Warsaw's Brave and Brilliant Yiddish Cabaret as part of the first annual Kabarett Fete (New York City). The sold-out premier of the Fete's only Yiddish offering led to several more shows that spring, including a performance as part of 92^nd Street Y's Manifest Festival at Makor (March 2007). Following its initial success, KLEYNKUNST! reopens Off-Broadway in November 2007 for a two-month run at the Folksbiene National Yiddish Theater, the longest continuously-producing Yiddish theatre in the world. Moishe Rosenfeld of Goldenland Productions has become the show's exclusive booking agent, representing it to potential venues across North America and Europe, and Judith Z. Miller of ZAMO! is managing Rebecca's career.

Currently Rebecca is hard at work on a new project which will highlight 20's and 30's cutting-edge Jewish cabaret from such bustling urban centers as Moscow, Vienna, Paris, Tel Aviv, and Berlin. Rebecca is also co-founding a trio of red-headed female cantors -- GINGI -- which will perform a range of exhilarating Jewish music, sacred to swing.