Dory Rebekah Sibley

  • Certification Level: Associate
  • Geographic Location: BELGIUM, Antwerp (Naedts)
  • Languages: Danish, English
  • Specialization: Movement Singing Acting Speech & Dialects Diversity/Inclusion Presence Private Coaching Social Justice Translation Voiceover Facilitation
  • Institution Name

Associate Teacher (2024), FVI Marketing

Arezzo, Italy

Other Locations Served: South Carolina, USA

Executive Director
Accademia dell'Arte
Via San Fabiano, 9
52100 Arezzo, AR, IT
+39 0575 5080046

+39 393 2544975

Email Address: dory.sibley@dellarte.it
Website: http://www.doryrebekah.com

Dory Rebekah Sibley (she/her) - mother, educator, original works artist, arts administrator - is the Executive Director and Professor of Voice and Ensemble Performance at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. She has been teaching for over two decades and served as an administrator and member of core faculty at the Accademia for 15 years before she joined the Theatre Department at Coastal Carolina University as an Assistant Professor of Voice and Speech. Over her 4-year tenure Dory served as the BFA Theatre Arts Recruitment Coordinator, Intimacy Director and Dialect Designer for all productions and was an Affiliate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies. Dory is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the Elemental Body Alignment System (EBAS). Her pedagogy is a mixture of her in depth training in devised and physical theatre, Roy Hart extended vocal techniques, Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Knight-Thompson Speechwork, Theatrical Intimacy Education and various bodywork fields including EBAS, Alexander and Feldenkrais methods. Dory is a pioneer teacher of Voice in the Mask, for which she has been invited by various institutions and conferences across the globe to share her research. As a director and performer, her original devised work has been featured in Berlin, Milan, Turin, Arezzo, Anghiari, Cortona, Genova and across the USA. She co-founded the physical theatre, mask troupe Tut’Zanni Theatre Company (@tutzanni) in 2011. Tut’Zanni is at the forefront of modern commedia and has performed and taught across the USA and Europe. Dory is also a founding member of the award-winning feminist clown troupe Women From Mars (@WFMtheatre), whose “clown-noir” cabaret SILENT REFLECTIONS was created to incite dialogue around social issues that primarily oppress women. As an arts administrator and educator, she is dedicated to holding space for diverse voices, encouraging people to embrace their unique voice, and fostering the expression of deep truth through the artist’s experience.

Publications:
Silent Reflections - A Clown-Noir Cabaret: Transformation of object and the feminist clown, SETC Theatre Symposium Journal, Alabama Press

Accolades:
Affiliate Faculty of the Year (2023-24), Women’s and Gender Studies, Coastal Carolina University
Outstanding Visual Impact (2023), Silent Reflections: A Clown-Noir Cabaret, National Women’s Theatre Festival
Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional Service in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (2022-23), Edwards College of Arts and Humanities, Coastal Carolina University
Faculty Member of the Year (2020-21), Theatre Department, Coastal Carolina University

Affiliations:
Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA)
Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC)
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity (Alumna)

Degrees & Institutions: MFA in Physical Theatre - Accademia dell'Arte/Mississippi University for Women

Languages: Italian, English

Specializations: Movement, Singing/Songwriting, Speech & Dialects, Acting, Diversity/Inclusion, Presence, Private Coaching, Social Justice, Translation, Voiceover, Facilitation