All About Eva

Eva's driving artistic force is play. After working for years as an advocate for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, she believes that the joy found within communal storytelling is a potent tool for change and survival. Her favorite theater projects point the way toward light while embracing the darkness innate to the human experience.

Eva earned her MFA at University of Houston's Professional Actor Training Program. In addition to acting, she is a professional movement director with a focus on intimacy and stage combat. Her training as a dancer, actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and victim advocate all inform this work. She is an alum of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's Apprentice Program, and studied opera at the Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy. Outside of the theatre, Eva loves historical fashion, foraging, and trying to make stray animals like her.

You’re by Sylvia Plath

Clownlike, happiest on your hands,

Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,

Gilled like a fish. A common-sense

Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.

Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,

Trawling your dark as owls do.

Mute as a turnip from the Fourth

Of July to All Fools’ Day,

O high-riser, my little loaf.

Vague as fog and looked for like mail.

Farther off than Australia.

Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.

Snug as a bud and at home

Like a sprat in a pickle jug.

A creel of eels, all ripples.

Jumpy as a Mexican bean.

Right, like a well-done sum.

A clean slate, with your own face on.