Rebecca Mahar (MFA, FHEA)

Thesis title: Irregular and Wild: Celtic Identity, Influence, and Interpretation in 1 Henry IV

Biography

Qualifications

Higher Education:

Master of Fine Arts, Acting - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Master of Fine Arts, Lighting Design - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Semester Diploma, Classical Acting - London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

work towards MPhil, Celtic Studies - University of Oxford (withdrew in good standing)

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), History - University of Alaska, Anchorage

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Theatre - University of Alaska, Anchorage

Other:

Certified Intimacy Director, Intimacy Directors & Coordinators

Advanced Actor-Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors

Theatrical Firearms Certification, Society of American Fight Directors

Consent-Forward Artist Certificate, Intimacy Directors & Coodinators

Undergraduate teaching

Undergraduate Tutor, English  Literature

AY 2025-26

  • Literary Studies 1A: Critical Close Reading Poetry & Drama [SEM1]
  • Literary Studies 1B: Critical Close Reading Prose [SEM2]

AY 2024-25

  • Literary Studies 1B: Critical Close Reading Prose [SEM2]

Undergraduate Tutor, Edinburgh Futures Institute

AY 2025-26

  • Researching Global Challenges 2 

AY 2024-25

  • Researching Global Challenges 2 

AY 2023-24

  • Researching Global Challenges 1 
  • Currents: Understanding and addressing global challenges [SEM1]

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Edinburgh Futures Institute

AY 2025-26

  • Future Library and Archive Collections 

AY 2024-25

  • Gamifying Historical Narratives 

  • Future Library and Archive Collections 

AY 2023-24

  • Heritage Places, Policies and Diplomacies 
  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Intensive (School of Health in Social Sciences)

Past project grants

British Shakespeare Association Small Grants Fund

Participant

2025

Oxford-Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 

University of Edinburgh Learning & Teaching Conference 

Future of Theatre Conference 

SGSAH Summer School 

IDC Intimacy Professional Summit 

Papers delivered

2026

“A forensic bibliography of Henry IV, Part 1’s Welsh scene at the RSC, from Anwyl to Griffith: interdisciplinary and paratextual approaches to production-centred Shakespeare research,” BritGrad Conference 2026, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 18-20 June 2026. (accepted)

  • Edward A. Langhans Award in Western Theatre and Dance History, Literature, and Theory Scholarship - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

  • Richard G. Mason Award for Excellence in Design or Technical Theatre - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Meritorious Achievement in Intimacy Coordination (Memorial Day) - KCACTF Region VIII
  • Theatre & Dance Student Choice Award: Most Valuable Person - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Theatre & Dance Student Choice Award: Outstanding Direction (Ordinary Days) - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Theatre & Dance Student Choice Award: Outstanding Lighting Design (Footholds: Merge) - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Meritorious Achievement in Lighting Design (Chinee, Japanee, All Mix Up) - KCACTF Region VIII
  • Honorable Mention in Lighting Design (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) - KCACTF Region VIII
  • The Heart of the Art Award (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) - KCACTF Region VIII
  • Student Choice Award: Lighting Design (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) - KCACTF Region VIII
  • Dayle Skore Memorial Award (The Playboy of the Western World) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Best Student Director (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Best Student Lighting Design (The Language of Trees) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Dayle Skore Memorial Award (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Best Student Sound Design (Chemical Imbalance) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Best Student Lighting Design (Wonder of the World) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
  • Dayle Skore Memorial Award (Fallen) - University of Alaska, Anchorage
This article was published on