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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 is the Artistic Director of Wild Theater Collective, a community engaged performance project creating artistic engagements centered on joy, inclusion, and awareness of the natural world. Coming Up: Auditions now open for Table is Set! Wild Theater Speaker Series Brings Food, Memory, and Community to Potsdam – Beginning in November, The Wild Theatre Collective presents the Wild Theatre Speaker Series at Potsdam Public Library, a six-part event exploring food, memory, identity, and belonging through interactive talks led by artists, scholars, and community members. Hosted in Collaboration with the St. Lawrence County Arts Council (SLC Arts) and PPL, The series runs Fridays in November and December, 5:30-6:30PM, in the Main Reading Room of Potsdam Public Library and is free and open to all ages. Each session invites audiences to reflect on how everyday experiences —sharing a meal, building a home, remembering a friend—connect to larger stories of history, culture and community 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 first performance: What the Trail Calls Us. Performeed September 2025 on the Munter Trail and at Nicandri Nature Center. Over 70 people saw the performance full of puppets, songs, and poetry. Performance of 'Play, Mother' at the Downtown Artist Cellar in Malone, NY on July 24, 2025. 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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