You learn to move with what you can’t control.
One woman. A lifetime of unexpected currents—and a lesson she first learned long ago.
Rip Current moves through the moments that leave their mark: financial hardship, professional struggles, health battles, family obligations and grief. With wit, honesty and the clarity that can come from looking back, it’s a journey that traces the experiences that taught her when to push forward, when to change course and when to stop fighting the current altogether.
Then a memory surfaces. As a child caught in a rip current, she survived not by fighting harder, but by trusting herself and finding another way back to shore. Years later, facing a very different kind of current, that lesson takes on new meaning.
MEET THE ARTIST
Dawn V. Eskridge is a theatre artist, educator, arts administrator, and producer with 30 years of experience creating, supporting, and championing the performing arts. A graduate of Florida A&M University and Kennesaw State University, she has worked with organizations including the ArtsBridge Foundation, Kennesaw State University, Victory Gardens Theater, and currently serves as the Patron Services Manager at Synchronicity Theatre and a full-time instructor of Theatre and Communication Studies at Clark Atlanta University.
Her commitment to expanding access to the arts has shaped her work as an educator and administrator, including securing $500,000 in federal funding to transform classroom space at Clark Atlanta University into a state-of-the-art black box theatre. Throughout her career, Dawn has remained deeply connected to the creative process as a theatre practitioner, bringing together her experiences as an artist, educator, producer, and storyteller. She now steps onto the stage with her original one-woman show, bringing her own words to life in a deeply personal work that marks an exciting new chapter in her artistic journey.
