Sara Becker

Sara Becker (She/Her)
Director of Voice & Text Program
Voice & Text Coach, The Matchmaker, The Chairs and The Two "Gentlemen" of Verona

Over 17 seasons with American Players Theatre, her work includes last season’s productions of The Winter’s Tale and Fallen Angels. Additional favorite productions include King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Cymbeline, Exit the King, A View from the Bridge, Arcadia, Travesties, and Endgame. Other coaching credits include the Henriad cycle (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V) at the Guthrie Theater, as well as six seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Hamlet, As You Like It, Henry V, among others). Additional work includes productions at the Alley Theatre (Twelfth Night, Pygmalion), ACT Seattle, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, BAM New York, The Acting Company, The Madison Rep (Anna Christie), and Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Pride and Prejudice, I Am My Own Wife). She has served as Head of APT’s team of Voice and Speech professionals since 2018, and also works to support the Apprentice acting company.

She holds an endowed professorship at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she trained with long-time APT treasure Susan Sweeney