Rebecca Ford

North American, British, New York, Southern, Spanish, Italian

I have been entertaining children of all ages for the last 18 years. My typical day requires me to stand in front a class and do whatever it takes to engage students in my lessons. I am a Spanish teacher. Some tactics I use are voice inflections, enunciation, rapid speech, slow speech, goofy voices, character voices when reading children's books...whatever it takes. During my college years, I earned extra money working as a transcriber for a blind girl on campus. She would record my voice into a special recorder as I read her textbooks and novels aloud. I used to sing in high school and college choir as a first soprano. In college I took classical voice lessons and sang opera pieces. I also performed on college campus singing the songs of Whitney Houston and Barbara Streisand. I still sing but I now perform for my family while cooking and cleaning! I hold a B.A. in Spanish, an M.A. in Spanish, as well as an M.A. in education. I also hold a paralegal certification. I currently teach Spanish to middle school students, and have taught every grade from grades 2-12. I am also a writer. I have written several bilingual children's books (unpublished). I wrote a quarterly newsletter for the CT AMC Mountaineering Committee, I have published two research papers with ERIC; I have contributed to a teacher book about the Dominican Republic which was published (200?); I currently founded and write for my blog Enlanguages.com and genredujour.wordpress.com. I am also working on a screenplay movie length and a short film. I was the vp of TSA and am currently the secretary of TSA. I run the annual screenplay contest. I participate regularly in table reads of screenplays. Writing workshops include...(so many) I took classical voice lessons for a year while in college. I focused on opera pieces. Voice over workshops: My VoiceBox with Joe Loesch in Nashville, TN. September and October of 2012; Voiceover Mixer, October, 2012; I performed in The Chronicals of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I performed in college a play called Danger: Girls Working. I was cast for the part of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, but midway through production, was cancelled due to financial issues. Twisted Wave on my iMac computer. The MIC by Apogee. I can audition from home and am minutes away from a professional recording studio.