Rebecca Kessin is a Los Angeles based sound designer.
Theatre is her life’s great passion!
Favorite recent productions include Ride the Cyclone at Chance Theater, American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory, Die Mommie, Die! for Celebration Theatre Company and CTG’s KDT Block Party, Priscilla! Queen of the Desert for Celebration Theatre Company (Ovation Winner - Best Production, 2019), This Land for Company of Angels, Peter Pan - The Boy Who Hated Mothers for The Blank, and Niagara Falls (World Premiere) at Theatre of NOTE.
Other recent credits include MISS YOU LIKE HELL at Theatre Squared, Dancing Lessons with Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre Company, Good People at Coachella Valley Rep, Born to Win, Dream Boy (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nomination - Best Sound Design, 2017), Bootycandy, The Homosexuals, and Revolver, with Celebration Theatre Company, The Antiscians, The Apricity Project at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, Laughter on the 23rd Floor at The Gary Marshall Theatre, Out of Our Father's House, Red Compass Productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, A Singular They and The Why for The Blank.
Rebecca is a faculty member at Los Angeles City College, where she teaches and mentors student designers.
Recent interviews and collaborations:
Treat your ears to 30 original pieces of prose, music, and sound design never heard before. This podcast features artists collaborating on a multi-media group project without having any knowledge about the identities of their counterparts. Only after the project's completion are the artists introduced to one another in a Salon-style roundtable discussion as they explore the roles of creativity, anonymity and the power of connection between people from different walks of life. Hosted by Spotify’s very own Sound Up Alum, Kacie Willis.
Season 2, Episode 9 features writer Seth Fishman, songwriter Jessica Lloyce, and sound designer Becca Kessin as they discuss the prompt “encore.”
“Hi Rebecca, what role has risk played in your life or career?
It’s interesting, I’m not sure I’ve ever asked myself quite this question before. Until I began to write an answer, I truly didn’t think of myself as a person who took a lot of risks. But looking back, maybe not! In the moment, a lot of the biggest decisions in my life were not something I saw as a risk. I viewed them as chances – opportunities to explore, to try, to learn...”
“Today we’d like to introduce you to Rebecca Kessin.
Rebecca, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I have loved theatre for as long as I can remember, which is easy when you grow up in New York. That path ultimately led me to move to California to pursue my MFA at CalArts. I remember driving into Santa Clarita for the first time – it was brown, dead looking, and slightly on fire. I had planned on being here for exactly three years – then back home to start my career. That was fifteen years ago! Little did I anticipate that my career would begin while I was a still a student, or that I would grow to find that dry desert landscape beautiful...”
Join student Ethan Dodgen as he interviews theatre professionals you won’t see on a stage. Ethan and Becca discuss what theatrical design is, and how a student might begin their own sound design journey!
“Rebecca Kessin moved to Los Angeles for graduate school and never left! She designs all over southern California, often for her beloved Celebration Theater, but also for the Gary Marshall Theatre, Company of Angels, Echo Theater, Red Compass Productions and The Blank...”
Featured Educator - Introduction to Sound Editing at the East Las Vegas Library
Sponsored by the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association as part of the 2022 TSDCA Annual Meeting
Featured Speaker - 2019 Spring National High School Journalism Convention
”Developing Narrative Through Sound”