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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. Coming Up: Performance of 'Play, Mother' at the Downtown Artist Cellar in Malone, NY on July 24, 2025. Wild Theater, preview performance on Aug. 2nd as part of SLC Arts' kickoff for the North Country Arts Festival. Full performance coming the first two weekends of Sept. 2025. New book!: 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: Wild Theater, phase one (Speaker Series at Potsdam Public Library) ran from May-June 2025! Phase two (script creation) is in full swing -- a portion of the script will be shared on Aug. 2, 2025 to kick off the North Country Arts Festival. BabbleBard Creative Collective a community-arts project for caregivers of young children. January-March 2025. 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 |
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