Stage Local

✨SUMMER AUDITION INTENSIVE ✨

Meet your teaching artist: Rebekah Howell 🎶

Rebekah Howell is a dramatic coloratura soprano, actress, and voice teacher whose career spans opera, musical theatre, and concert work. Known for a voice that moves effortlessly from bel canto to Broadway belt, recent performances include Sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, the four heroines in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Cunegonde in Candide, Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, The Witch in Into The Woods, and solo appearances with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, and LaPorte County Symphony.

A four-time finalist/semifinalist in the Lotte Lenya Competition and inaugural recipient of the Kurt Weill Award, Rebekah has completed residencies with Charlottesville Opera, Opera Colorado, Nashville Opera, Chautauqua Opera, and Hong Kong Disneyland. In the Southeast, she has also appeared with Opera Memphis, Knoxville Opera, and Studio Tenn.

As a teacher, Rebekah has worked with singers for over a decade through her Nashville-based private studio, Indiana University, and Belmont University. Her students have gone on to national tours, collegiate music programs, competitions, teaching careers, and leading musical theatre roles. She specializes in helping singers find freedom, confidence, and efficiency in their voices.

Rebekah is one of Bethany’s favorite former cast mates and one of her personal trusted voice teachers!

LIMITED SPOTS REMAIN. Ages 13-Adult. Visit stagelocallebanon.com to register!

LAST CALL to return to RYDELL HIGH! Come see us at Cumberland University’s June and Bill Heydel Fine Arts Center at 2pm and 7pm! Tickets live at stagelocallebanon.com or at the door! 🎟️🎟️🎟️