Rebecca Singh
Rebecca’s multidisciplinary art practice spans over 25 years. She is an award-winning producer, published author, international public speaker, actor and writer. She is a highly sought-after voice-over artist having worked with some of the largest global institutions, voicing descriptions on all genres of artwork shows and events from around the world including art films, large-scale art installations, dance, and opera as well as DORA -nominated productions. Her extensive experience as a performer includes singing on a Juno-nominated record, which was shortlisted for the Polaris prize, sharing the screen with Elizabeth Moss and Joseph Fiennes on the Emmy-winning show Handmaid’s Tale and taking part in Women at Plays for 3 consecutive years as an actor. Her interactive performance artwork has been featured in Nuits Blanche twice and she has been featured as a guest artist many times. She has been a recipient of a Mallory Gilbert Leadership Protegee Award, a Spoken word Residency Banff Centre for the Arts and has been a Jury for the Canadian Screen Award. Rebecca is also the founder and CEO of Superior Description Services. An advocate for accessibility and inclusion in the arts, she has been revolutionizing the industry with leading innovations since 2011 and is a contributor to the Routledge Handbook of Audio Description. This year, she also hosted and co-executive produced the podcast Radio LUMI for LUMINATO Festival and launched the Hopewell Garden Audio Story Project. One of her latest projects is her play My Origami Motorcycle which she originally wrote and performed as a one-woman show that toured Canada and has been recently adapted into a newly published accessible graphic novel.