Rivka is playing Mrs. Shin, the conniving and funny neighbor, in Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Setzuan’, directed by Domenique Lozano. The play is part of American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Acting season. Plays at the Strand Theater May 10-13.

Rivka worked opposite John Douglas Thompson again as Ophelia in American Conservatory Theater’s workshop of Hamlet, directed by A.C.T.’s artistic director, Carey Perloff.

Rivka played Juliet and Benvolio in an abridged version of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ as part of A.C.T.’s ‘Will on Wheels’ tour, which brings Shakespeare to middle and high schools in the Bay Area from March 4-17. The production was directed by Giles Havergal CBE, of Glasgow’s Citizen Theatre.

Rivka will play Edith in Susan Glaspell’s CHAINS OF DEW on Sunday, April 2, at American Conservatory Theater’s Strand Theater, directed by Artistic Director, Carey Perloff.

Rivka played Sister James in DOUBT, directed by the brilliant Nancy Benjamin from the Stratford Festival, as part of the American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Acting Program’s Skyfestival, January 17-20.

Rivka read #8, the innocent and nosy team member, in Sarah DeLappe’s brilliant play The Wolves, which had a reading at the American Conservatory Theater on December 2nd.

Rivka performs a stirring new piece by Neil LaBute, as part of Every 28 Hours, a series of one-minute plays inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.

The One-Day Festivals will be held at The Rueff at The American Conservatory Theatre‘s Strand Theater on October 18th @7pm & at Berkeley Rep‘s Osher Studio on October 19th @7pm, followed by a four-week run at the FaultLine Theater.

Rivka performs in an in-house reading of an A.C.T. commissioned adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Don Carlos’, translated by Domenique Lozano and directed by A.C.T.’s artistic director, Carey Perloff.

Rivka plays the Princess of Eboli, opposite John Douglas Thompson’s King Philip II of Spain. Together, the two of them are having a secret affair while political warfare rages outside of the bedroom.

Rivka is starring in her first restoration comedy and taking on her first Irish character! Rivka plays Trudge, an Irish woman of the night who walks to London to reunite with the father of her new-born baby. But along the way, things don’t necessarily go as planned. Directed by Nancy Benjamin from the Stratford Festival, ‘Love and a Bottle’ is part of American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. Acting season. Plays at the Strand Theater October 5-8.

Rivka will be playing Louisa in Charles Mee’s Cardenio at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater. The play is a zany farcical rollercoaster of laughs. Come!