Welcome to KidsAct! Spring Break Camp! Meet the Counselors!
We are joined by Emily Rivera, Associate Director of Education who will serve as the camps Music Director!
Emily joined us in January and is excited to join the staff at KidsAct!
Emily Rivera is a classically trained mezzo-soprano, actor, voice artist, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, director, and teacher based in the Capital Region of New York. Emily has performed regionally, in NYC, and abroad with Phoenix Entertainment, NETworks, NY Lyric Opera, NY City Opera VOX, Amore Opera, Amato Opera, American Opera Project, Dicapo Opera, Opera Company of Brooklyn, Regina Opera, NYC Opera VOX, Bayview Music Festival, AIMS Graz, and has performed with La Lirica Musica, the Puccini Opera Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival. Operatic credits include: Le Nozze di Figaro(Cherubino), Falstaff(Alice), La Cenerentola(Tisbe), Rossini’s Nina, La Boheme, Die Fledermaus(Orlofsky), Cendrillon(Queen), Adamo’s Little Women(Jo) and Street Scene(Emma). Musical theatre credits include: Once (Girl), 1776 (Abigail), Camelot (swing), My Fair Lady (Eliza), Jekyll & Hyde (Emma), Guys and Dolls (Sarah), Yeston’s Phantom (Christine), Hooray for Hollywood (Ethel), Sweeney Todd (Johanna), Chess (Svetlana) Annie (Grace) Bye Bye Birdie (Rose). T.V./Film: Paramount, HBO, Peacock, Amazon Prime, Searchlight, A Complete Unknown, Smile 2, And Just Like That…, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, The Gilded Age, Pokerface, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Emily has music directed and conducted Once on This Island (BTTUNY: Cap Rep, Albany), The 25th Annual Putnam…(Steamer 10, Albany), Disney’s: The Little Mermaid (Capital District Arts Initiative), Beethoven: Live in Concert (staged premiere) (Fort Salem Theatre), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Into the Woods (CHS), Disney’s Tarzan, It Shoulda Been You, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to The Forum and Merrily We Roll Along (all with Schenectady Light Opera Company), Bells Are Ringing and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Not So Common Players). Upcoming: Hadestown: Teen Edition (SLOC, November 2025). Proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. MM (NYU), MSED (St. Rose), BM (Depauw).emilyhelenarose.com
Adrian Rifat
A New York based artist, Adrian is grateful for the opportunity to help cultivate the minds of the future. Past school directing credits include Little Mermaid Jr., RENT, Urinetown, TYA Seussical, Sweeney Todd, and HadesTown: Teen Edition. Big thanks to the team at Barrington Stage Company, and to Nathan!
Let’s play!
Barrington Stage Company KidsAct! and TeensAct! Camps 