Rivka Eckert

Rivka Eckert is an educator, mother/artist, scholar activist, and abolitionist theatre-maker. She received her M.F.A in Theatre for Youth and Communities 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 colleges and universities, prisons, high schools, and middle schools and worked with the Peace Corps in Samoa and Liberia. Her last book project, Into Abolitionist Theatre: A Guidebook for Liberatory Theatre-making, explores theatre-making as disruption to capitalism and highlights theatre projects/programs in prisons, higher education, secondary education, and with marginalized youth.