Mikvah Girls at Broadwater Main Stage

Brian Eckert is a director and adapter of plays and musicals invested in understanding systems, how and why we relate to each other. Most recently in Los Angeles, he directed and produced the Austrian play Jackie by Elfriede Jelinek and Lucas Hnath’s play A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. His work has been shown at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York and Two River Theater. Brian is a frequent associate to director Sarna Lapine and others, including the legendary Graciela Daniele and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. He has worked Off-Broadway and regionally at Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, New York City Center, and Pasadena Playhouse. BFA: NYU. brianeckertdirector.com Brian is also the Artistic Director of This Is A Front, a new LA-based theatre company staging connections through theatre and social moments. We envision a vibrant creative community that reshapes how we understand our role in each other’s lives. IG: @thisisafront.theatre

Emmy Weissman (she/her) is a playwright based in NYC. Her plays include Sugar (The Maker's Ensemble Short Play Fest), Glow Worms (Chain Theatre) and Mikvah Girls (Art House Productions, Breaking and Entering Theatre Co., This is a Front Theatre). Film: Gracie Green is Getting Resurrected. She was a playwright-in-residence with Art House Productions’ INKubator New Play Program and a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is a Theatermacher fellow at the Alliance for Jewish Theater and will be an incoming MFA Playwriting student at Hunter College in Fall 2024. BFA in Drama- NYU. As a theatre educator, she has worked with the Brooklyn Arts Council, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Classic Stage Company, Arts Connection, Girl Be Heard, NYC Children's Theater, The 92nd Street Y, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and SOUL Sisters Leadership Collective.