Rivka did double duty and played two vastly different characters in Adam Kraar’s reading of Sputnik in Suburbia – a deeply unhappy 1950s housewife and Laika, the Russian dog sent shuttling through space. The reading was hosted by Boomerang Theatre Company.
This summer, Rivka was supposed to star in Stephanie Swirsky’s hilarious play Don’t Do This to Us! directed by Tasha Gordon-Solomon. Then 2020 happened. Soooo… Stephanie wrote a play about us trying to perform the play, and then we put that play up on Zoom. Very meta, and very, very funny.
Rivka workshopped Jonathan Spector’s new play What Comes Next directed by Cait Robinson as part of Portland Stage’s Little Festival of the Unexpected.
Rivka recently workshopped two of Tori Keenan-Zelt’s new plays with New Georges: Taxidermy Play directed by Portia Krieger and JonBenet Game directed by Larissa Lury.
This September, Rivka plays Desdemona in OTHELLO at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Co-directed by Antón Armendariz and Andrew Bell, this production will enmesh Shakespeare’s play with Verdi’s opera for a full theatrical experience.
Rivka returned to the cast of Argument Sessions to perform in a workshop production of an immersive devised theatre piece based on the Supreme Court case Shelby v. Holder.
Argument Sessions places audiences in the middle of our country’s most important legal battles. This ensemble-driven, transcript-meets-cabaret event weaves verbatim US Supreme Court argument transcripts and decisions with variety theatre, stripping away the austerity of the courtroom and inviting you to party with our judicial process.
In 2015, we performed Obergefell v. Hodges at Ars Nova ANT Fest, and this time around we performed in the Women in Theatre Festival, as part of Project Y.
Directed by Ilana Becker with additional writing by Tasha Gordon-Solomon.
June 7, 11, & 19 at 7:30pm at the A.R.T./New York Theatres.
Rivka is headed back to the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for her seventh Young Playwrights Festival, where short plays written by middle and high schoolers are staged by professional actors, directors and designers over one magical weekend. It’s always her favorite weekend of the year! This time around she’ll be working on Good Opportunity, directed by Alex Keegan.
Next up I play Dr. Ella Sinta in ELLA IN THE TUNDRA by Marianna Staroselsky, directed by Daniella Caggiano. ELLA IN THE TUNDRA is Marianna’s Columbia MFA Playwriting Thesis.
The play follows Ella, a world class fertility doctor, who specializes in the latest cryo-freezing technologies and also happens to be every cursed princess’s fairy godmother. Ella’s perfectly controlled world gets turned upside down with the appearance of a most unusual patient who also happens to be a convicted criminal about to go to prison.
Tickets are free.
| Date: | Thu May 2, 2019 – Sat May 4, 2019 |
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| Time: | May 2, 8:00 PM May 3, 2:30 PM May 4, 7:30 PM |
| Location: | Ford Foundation Studio Theatre Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 |
Rivka joins Shake and Bake‘s Love’s Labour’s Lost understudying all the women in the show. Let the battle of wits BEGIN!
Love’s Labour’s Lost runs until January 6th. Tickets can be found here.
“A pure unadulterated delight”- THE DAILY BEAST
“Joyous, inventive, and thoroughly irreverent”- THEATERMANIA
“They are amazing! The best time out I have had in a while.”- SHOW-SCORE
“Amazing. You MUST do this at least once in your life.”- TRIP ADVISOR
Rivka will play the Young Woman in a reading Adam Kraar’s OCEAN PARKWAY ON ROSH HASHANAH, directed by Tasha Gordon-Solomon. The reading is part of Ensemble Studio Theater’s Memberfest, which are open readings of works in progress of EST Member Artists.
The story goes… An upwardly mobile man jogs down Ocean Parkway, stumbling on his Jewish roots, his impending mortality, and his craving for Nanna’s banana marshmallow kugel.
No tickets required! The reading is Tuesday, October 30th at 4pm at EST. More information here.