Rebecca Wright

Rebecca Wright (5 December 1947, Springfield, Ohio – 29 January 2006, Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American ballerina, teacher, choreographer and ballet school director.

She can be seen on television and on DVD as The Doll in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of The Nutcracker, which was telecast in 1977.

After her retirement, she married the dancer George de la Peña (who appears in the Baryshnikov Nutcracker) and turned to teaching and choreographing including serving as full time ballet faculty at California Institute of the Arts before becoming director of the Washington School of Ballet in 2004.

She held a dance professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles and was director of dance programs at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.

She also spent several years as director of dance programs at the private St. Paul's School in Concord, NH.