Lucille Rivin has a multi-faceted background. She is an actor and director who has performed in a variety of roles on stage, ranging from Lula in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, to a conflicted stand-up comedian in The Brooklyn Trojan Women (published by Samuel French as The Yiddish Trojan Women) and a Russian refusenik in The Golden Leg. She wrote, produced, and performed a one-woman piece Thank You for the Window Seat about astronaut Judith Resnik. 

 

As a director, Lucille has had the pleasure of working with some of her talented New York colleagues, directing an independent production of Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain as well as one-act plays at the Riant Theatre and at PULSE. 

 

In addition to her stage work, Lucille has appeared on episodic television and in award-winning independent films, where her roles varied from an opinionated alcoholic to a 19th century lighthouse keeper’s wife to a pregnant butcher’s assistant. She provided the narration for To Endure, a documentary about the role of women in the Albanian uprising that helped change the country’s government. 

 

Lucille is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio, has participated in the summer directing institute at Yale School of Drama, has taught acting at the Susan Batson Studio, and is a private acting coach.

 

She is also a singer, songwriter, arts educator, and writer. Articles she has written on restorative justice and on social-emotional learning in education have been included in national and international publications. She is currently in the process of writing a non-fiction children’s book and is also learning to paint in oils.

 

Along with her focus on the arts, she is committed to working against racism, bigotry, and oppression and to advancing social justice and restorative practices. She firmly believes that we can use all the arts to make the world a more just and equitable place! 

 

Lucille speaks fluent French and decent Spanish. She is married, is a mom and a stepmom and grandmother, and counts herself fortunate to have her loving family and friends in her life.