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Rivka Eckert
Theatre-maker, Activist, EducatorRivka Eckert is a mother/artist, scholar activist, and abolitionist theatre-maker. She received her M.F.A in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University and her B.A. in Theatre Education and Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College. Eckert has taught Theatre and English in prisons, high schools, and middle schools and worked with the Peace Corps in Samoa and Liberia. From 2016-2024, Rivka taught in SUNY Potsdam's Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Management. She now teaches in the Theatre Education and Applied Theatre graduate programs at Emerson College in Boston, MA.
New book!: Her current book project, Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making, explores theatre-making as disruption to capitalism -- highlighting theatre projects/programs in prisons, higher education, secondary education, and with marginalized youth. Just finished: Touring to KCACTF, Region 1 Finnegan Kruckemeyer's You and Me and the Space Between, a Theatre for Young Audiences play exploring the plight of environmental refugees through the eyes of a child. Eckert's directoral approach used ensemble movement work, creative storytelling, live-projected illustration, and original music composition by Gregory Wanamaker. Guest interview for podcast episode of All Power to the Developing! Listen on Spotify |
North Country Bound
Listen Jody Tosti's interview with Rivka on North Country Kitchen Table Conversations on North Country Bound and the ripple impact of correctional communities on the people who work there. (March 2021)
