Photo by Samuel Pickart

NEWS

  • “SUFFS” on BROADWAY! Rebecca has joined the journey of “SUFFS,” a brand new musical opening on Broadway April 18th. She was selected as SDC Foundation’s 2024 Mike Ockrent Fellow, the first recipient for both Direction AND Choreography. She is thrilled to be working with director Leigh Silverman and choreographer Mayte Natalio during the entire rehearsal process through the show’s opening! Read the announcement in Playbill.com.

  • Rebecca and her writing partner are currently writing and developing a comedic television series: “Miami Us,” centered around female relationships, familial ties, hispanic identity and what it means to simultaneously feel like an insider and an outsider when you return to your hometown. In this case, it’s a love-letter full of eye-rolls to her birthplace, Miami — all the “Spanglish” included.

IN A NUTSHELL

I’m a director, choreographer, performer, writer, and teacher based out of New York City, where I have proudly called home since 2004. But I forever carry my Miami origins with me, where I began my extensive (and intensive!) dance training from a very young age, all the way through high school. After graduating with top honors, I was admitted on a scholarship to Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where I began my NYC journey. But academia was calling my name, so I switched concentrations to graduate with a B.A. double major in Journalism and Religious Studies, with magna cum laude honors.

Not long after graduation, I booked my first (ever!) professional musical theatre show: the original company of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s IN THE HEIGHTS first national tour in 2009. (Yes, the guy who wrote HAMILTON.) Talk about a dream job. It was this significant, fortuitous moment that launched me on to my professional path as a performer.

My gypsy spirit has been fortunate enough to travel all over the country and many parts of the world: sometimes for myself, and sometimes for work. Most recently I was seen on the road with the 50th Anniversary National Tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR. I've also performed in the Broadway musicals WICKED, IN THE HEIGHTS, and SOUL DOCTOR, and danced my way through a satiating world-cruise ship contract. I also work in television and film as an actor, and as a performing arts educator and choreographer.

In the summer of 2022, I made my debut as a Director with the stage production of the prolific, thought-provoking Broadway musical, CABARET, at San Antonio Broadway Theater in Texas. Just a month before, I served as the Choreographer and Associate Director of a production of IN THE HEIGHTS at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre in Florida.

Harnessing my journalism degree, I have contributed as a writer and/or editor to The Village Voice, GO magazine, NYU LiveWire, Washington Square News, Joonbug.com, BrooklynExposed.com, Remezcla.com and CityPath.com, among others. I started a writer’s food and travel blog back when blogs were a thing. I’ve let it die since but there’s still some solid content on there. I’m currently focusing my writing on a new Latin-centric comedic television pilot set in my hometown, Miami.

I strive to be a thoughtful and honest storyteller, in all the forms that may take.

FUN FACTS

  • My last name is pronounced KRYT-sir (the first syllable rhymes with sky).

  • I got my motorcycle license at 20, inspired an article I was writing at the time about female motorcycle riders. (Call it method.)

  • I've been to 37 US states and 37 countries...and counting.

  • I speak Spanish fluently thanks to my Cuban blood.

  • I had a Bat Mitzvah thanks to my Jewish blood.

  • Member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA)

  • Associate Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)

  • Yoga Teacher Certified 200-hr

  • I picked up the ukulele during the pandemic and discovered I could play an instrument!