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In the many years of her acting, Rivka has performed on the stages of the most respected theaters in Israel: the [[Habima National Theater]], the [[Cameri Theater]], the [[Beit Lessin Theater]], the [[Khan Theater]] in [[Jerusalem]], and the [[Beer-Sheva Municipal Theater|Beer-Sheva]] and [[Haifa Theatre|Haifa Municipal Theater]]s.
 
In the beginning of the 1990s, Rivka decided to become an independent actress who enjoyed maximum freedom to choose her acting roles.{{Cn}}
 
Neumann has a unique ability to transform on stage, as seen in the play ''Devorah Baron'' in which her character grew 35 years older in the duration of the play.{{Cn}}
 
Neuman has played a wide variety of main and secondary roles in theatres, television and films, including comedies, dramas and romance. Rivka was also involved in independent productions, including students', on a voluntary basis as part of her ambition to interact with the new generation of Israeli artists. Rivka also has a habit of sketching portraits and events that occur during the preparation of a play, some of which were presented in an exhibition in 2004.
 
Neuman took the part of Adella in ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' by [[Federico García Lorca|Lorca]], Alice in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' by [[Lewis Carroll]], Angie in ''[[Top Girls]]'' by [[Carol Churchil]], Anabela in ''[['Tis Pity She's a Whore]]'' by [[John Ford]], Bailke in ''[[The Grand Prize]]'' by [[Sholem Aleichem]], Barblin in ''Andorra'' by [[Max Frisch]], Bat-Sheva in ''[[After the Holidays]]'' by [[Yehoshua Kenaz]], Bela Barlow in ''[[Rubber Merchants]]'' by [[Hanoch Levin]], Bessie in ''[[Marvin's Room (play)|Marvin's Room]]'' by [[Scott McPherson]], Cherubino in ''The Follies of a Day or The Marriage of Figaro'' by [[Peter Turini]], Chorus Leader in ''[[Medea (play)|Medea]]'' by [[Euripides]], Deirdre in ''Remembrance'' by [[Graham Reid (writer)|Graham Reid]], Elinor in ''Abandoned Property'' by [[Shulamit Lapid]], Elizabeth Proctor in ''[[The Crucible]]'' by Miller, Hanzi Brand in ''[[Kastner]]'' by [[Moti Lerner]], Isabella in ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' by [[Shakespeare]], [[Juliet Capulet|Juliet]] in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' by Shakespeare, Kasandra in ''[[The Lost Women of Troy]]'' by [[Hanoch Levin]], Katia in ''The Storm'' by [[Aleksandr Ostrovsky|Ostrovsky]], Leila in ''[[The Screens]]'' by [[Jean Genet]], Martha in ''[[The Nest (play)|The Nest]]'' by [[Franz Xavier Kroetz]], Martirio in ''[[The House of Bernarda Alba]]'' by [[Federico García Lorca|Lorca]], Natasha in ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' by [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]], [[Queen of Sheba]] in ''The Queen of Sheba'' by [[Samy Grunman]], Rea in ''[[Romulus the Great]]'' by [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Sara in ''[[Apples from the Desert]]'' by [[Savion Liebrecht]], Sofya in ''[[Wild Honey (play)|Wild Honey]]'' by Chekhov, The Housekeeper in ''[[Doña Rosita]]'' by Lorca, The Second in ''Family'' by [[Ravid Davara]], The Sewer-keeper's Apprentice in ''Beheading'' by Hanoch Levin, Ursula in ''The Fossil: Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Classes'' by [[Carl Sternheim]], Wendla in ''Spring Awakening: Tragedy of Childhood'' by Frank Wedekind, Yonit in ''The Murder of Pierrot'' by Eran Baniel, Zippora Aharonovitz in ''Devorah Baron'' by [[Yehudit Katzir]].
 
Neumann acted in several Israeli films, such at the trilogy by [[Assi Dayan]]: ''[[Life According to Agfa]]'' (1992), ''[[An Electric Blanket named Moshe]]'' (1995) and ''[[The 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum]]'' (1997); and the films ''[[Sweet Mud]]'' (2006), ''[[HaAsonot Shel Nina]]'' (2003), ''[[Berlin-Yerushalaim]]'' (1989) and as Mary in ''[[Jesus (1979 film)|Jesus]]'' (1979).
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Neumann received the Israeli Theatre Award for the best supporting actress in 2006, for her part in ''[[Apples from the Desert]]''.
 
== Personal life ==
Neumann lived in [[Tel Aviv]] with her partner [[Orna Lin]]