Rebecca Little

Co Artistic Director Little Pixie Productions

Rebecca trained at the Arts Educational School Tring (now known as Tring Park School for the Performing Arts) where she became Head Girl. In her final year she won the Stage Cup and achieved major levels in Ballet, Jazz and Tap, Piano, Clarinet and Drama exams including an AISTD in Modern dance. She concluded her training on the Musical Theatre course at Arts Educational London gaining a Diploma.

 

Her none performing credits include teaching and devising drama and dance workshops at Key Stage 1, 2, 3 and 4 levels and writing and directing (Pocket Panto Company and Little Pixie Productions). Creative, writing, directing and choreography credits also include Granny's Big Top Tale, Turned Out Nice Again!, What Became of the Red Shoes?, Madam Owl's Mysterious Menagerie, Victorian Music Hall, Operatastic, The Nightingale of South Bank and The Snow Queen (Little Pixie Productions). Rebecca is also a dance teacher in various disciplines and is a qualified member of the dance associations IDTA and NATD.

 

Rebecca regularly performs in theatre throughout the country and some of her theatre credits include: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Nurse in Romeo and Juliet; Beatrice and Dogberry in Much a do about Nothing; Viola and Maria in Twelfth Night and Hermia and Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream (Oddsocks National Tour); Granny Flo in Granny's Big Top Tale (Little Pixie Productions); Bless 'em All (Pocket Panto); Granny Flo in Turned Out Nice Again! (Little Pixie Productions); Miss Little in the UK premiere of Erik Gedeon’s Forever Young 2010 and the 2011, 2012 and 2015 revivals (Nottingham Playhouse; Wolsey Theatre Ipswich; Oldham Coliseum and UK Tour); Granny Flo and Ruby in What Became of the Red Shoes? (Little Pixie Productions); Victorian Old Time Music Hall (Pocket Panto and Little Pixie Productions); Poppy, Lydia and Gertie in The Bunsen Towers Mystery (tour for Kinetic Theatre); cover for the tour of Tracy Beaker Gets Real, during which Rebecca played the parts of both Tracy and Cam (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company); Hannah in Silence (Momentum Festival, Lakeside Arts Centre); Lulu in Sing-a-long-a-Eurovision (Dublin & UK); Macduff in a mostly Female production of Macbeth (Chester Gateway); Goldilocks (national tour for Tutti Frutti Productions); Storyteller for The Princess and the Pea and Little Red Riding Hood and Pippin Reed in Johnny Thunder (SGA Productions); Philippa in The Fly, Lois in Straight and Narrow, Judy in Simply the Best, Molly, May, Alison and other parts in Canterbury Tales and Soph in Loadsamoney! (Oldham Coliseum); Side by Side by Sondheim (Hampton Hill Playhouse); Leona Samish in Do I Hear a Waltz? (Landor Theatre); the title role in the melodrama The Pleasures of Fanny (Brick Lane Music Hall); Sister Mary Leo in Nunsense (Riverside Theatre Belfast and Jermyn Street Theatre London West End) and many Music Hall bills (Players’ Theatre London West End, Brick Lane Music Hall and across the country).

 

Rebecca has also performed extensively in Pantomime which include: Little Joan in Robin Hood and Gwendolyn The Good Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk (Baths Hall Scunthorpe); Little Devilla in Cinderella, Queen Gertrude in Sleeping Beauty, Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk, Tilly Tuck the Tomboy in Robin Hood, Dandini in Cinderella, The Golden Fairy in Mother Goose, Widow Wang and The Slave of the Ring in Aladdin, Fairy Bowbells in Dick Whittington, Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Annie in Jack and the Beanstalk, Florence and Veronique in Beauty and the Beast and Dick in Dick Whittington (Nottingham Playhouse); Rosemary in Mother Goose (Nottingham Playhouse & Oldham Coliseum); The title roles of Cinderella and Aladdin, Alice and Fairy Bowbells in Dick Whittington, Cinderella in Panto Bingo, Virtue and Annie in Mother Goose and Jill, Fairy & the Giant’s Wife in Jack and the Beanstalk (Pocket Panto); Alice Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington (Brick Lane Music Hall & Wakefield Theatre Royal); and Lady Alice in Robin Hood, Fairy Rosebud in Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Rosawednesda in Cinderella (Players’ Theatre London).

 

Voice recording work includes: Verdandi in Black Shuck (New Perspectives); Kitty Bennet and Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice (Dramafy & Little Pixie Productions);  Elsie Merman in From sad Shires (Sparrow Studios & Little Pixie Productions) and Song Vocalist in Queer Lafy M (1623 Theatre Company).

 

Television appearances include Aria Grande Singer in Riot Women (Drama Republic, BBC, Sally Wainwright) and Christopher "double" in Magnificent 7,( BBC, Kenneth Glenaan).

 

Rebecca has written and published a children's picture book based on her show What Became of the Red Shoes? which is illustrated by Hannah Lewis. You can purchase the book via this website here.

 

Rebecca has been an assistant director for Happy Birthday Peter Rabbit (Old Laundry Theatre - now The Victoria Wood Theatre, in Bowness ) and Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood (Baths Hall, Scunthorpe).

 

With Rebecca’s sound designer husband, Adam P McCready, her company also creates and produces audio dramas, which are released as podcasts. Recently they have worked with Dramafy in the USA and have co produced a production of Pride and Prejudice. Other audio drama producing credits include: And Never Home Came She; The Black Dog and From Sad Shires (Sparrow Studios & Little Pixie Productions).

 

Contact Rebecca at: rebecca@littlepixieproductions.co.uk

 

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Rebecca Little - Teaching Biography

Rebecca (Miss Becky) gained her 1st dance teaching qualification with the ISTD at the age of 18.
She grew up on Castle in Northwich, Cheshire and started dancing at the age of 3 at a local school in the area, with Claudia Stansfield. At the age of 8 she started to study over in Liverpool on Saturdays, at the Elliot Clarke School.
At age 11 Rebecca auditioned and won a place at the prestigious Arts Educational School, Tring Park (now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts). She studied there for seven years right through to her A’ Levels, becoming Head Girl and also achieved major levels in exams for dance, drama and music, including:
Advanced Modern ISTD
Advanced Tap ISTD
Intermediate Cecchetti Ballet ISTD


At the age of 18, before graduating from Tring Park, she also gained a distinction with the ISTD in her first dance teaching qualification:

Associate in Modern Theatre Dance, ISTD


Rebecca went on to specialise in Musical Theatre at Arts Educational London Schools (now ArtsEd) and graduated with the:
Diploma in Musical Theatre


Rebecca has performed professionally in theatre throughout the UK and Channel Islands and still performs and also runs her own theatre company, Little Pixie Productions. For many years as well as a performer in professional Pantomimes, she was also the Dance Captain, working closely with the Choreographer and maintaining their standard of the choreography in the productions.


She has delivered dance and drama workshops in junior schools for key stages 1 - 2, with youth theatre groups for key stages 3 - 4 and at Derby University for Education Studies students.


In 2018 when she returned to live in her hometown of Northwich, Rebecca began teaching for Miss Wanda Kinder-Berry at her school, Kinder-Berry School of Dance and also teaches for Miss Rachel Carpenter at the Rachel Carpenter School of dance in Hartford.


Recently, Rebecca helped her Mum run the family dancewear business, L. J. Little Dancewear, which was established by her parents in Northwich in 1969, until it closed in 2025 due to her Mum's retirement. In 2021 Rebecca trained to be a qualified pointe shoe fitter and fitted pointe shoes at the shop until it closed.


Other qualifications and information:

Qualified member of the NATD.

NATD Diploma of Contemporary Dance, Teacher’s Course, grades 1 -6.

NATD Diploma of Contemporary Dance, Teacher’s Course, Intermediate Foundation, Intermediate and Associate.

Qualified member of the IDTA.

IDTA Teaching Associate in Modern Jazz.

ISTD Teaching Associate in Modern Theatre Dance.

Member of Equity. The union for professional performers and creative practioners in the entertainment industry.

Certificates in Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Online, an online introduction, with Dance School Safeguarding Services.

Enhanced DBS checked.

NATD; IDTA & ISTD are Ofqual, CCEA & internationally recognised teaching organisations.

CDMT (Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre) provides quality assurance for the professional dance, drama and musical theatre industries.
NATD, IDTA & ISTD are Validated Awarding Organisations with the CDMT.
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and ArtsEd are accredited with the CDMT.