Acclaimed Performance Artist Rinde Eckert to Present Master Class

The department of theatre will present a master class with the renowned performance artist Rinde Eckert, playwright and composer of the current American Repertory Theatre production Orpheus X, in which he also performs, on April 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Pit Theatre (O’Kane Hall Basement). The event is free and open to the public.

Eckert is a celebrated composer, writer, director, singer, actor and movement artist. He has performed his compositions both nationally and in Europe. His works include: And God Created Great Whales (Obie Award-winner); An Idiot Divine; Romeo Sierra Tango; Quit This House; Shoot the Moving Things (radio musical), Four Songs Lost in a Wall (radio opera), The Gardening of Thomas D (two-person musical play); and The Navigator (an opera for children). He has worked extensively as a composer and collaborator with choreographer Margaret Jenkins, and won the San Francisco Bay Area’s Isadora Duncan Award for his music in Shelf Life. His chamber works have been performed in Portland, Boston, and New York.