Exemplar Practitioners and Organizations
A work in progress and still under construction...Please read more about the following individuals and organization including companies, scholars and practitioners:
 Augusto Boal
Legendary Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal's workshops & theatre exercises are renowned throughout the world for their life-changing effects. Boal's vision of the transformative power of theatre created a movement that began 30 years earlier with his landmark work, The Theatre of the Oppressed.
Linda Frye Burnham
Linda Frye Burnham is co-director of Art in the Public Interest and the Community Arts Network. She founded High Performance magazine and is editor, with Steven Durland, of The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena.
Jan Cohen-Cruz
Jan Cohen-Cruz is Director of Theatre Studies in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is author of Local Acts: Community-based Performance. Jan is obsessed in helping to build the field of community-based arts because it is a large piece of the legacy of the engaged theatre of the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Jan believes that we need models of theatre projects that are part of social discourse, and this field is one that deserves to be much better known. Community-based arts allows us to combine ritual, political organizing and education, to which she is also very much drawn.
Mandala Center – Marc Weinblatt
Marc Weinblatt is founder & director of the Mandala Center for Awareness, Transformation, & Action based in Port Townsend, Washington. Formerly Artistic Director at the Seattle Public Theater, Marc is an internationally recognized expert in the use of Augusto Boal's ground breaking Theater of the Oppressed to stimulate personal and social change.
Living Stage Theatre Company
Cornerstone Theatre
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
ArtsSpot Productions
Creative Arts Team
Urban Bush Women
Ann Kilkelly
Robert H. Leonard
Dwight Conquergood
Carpetbag Players
Michael Rohd
Apalshop
Baz Kershaw
Nellie Richard
Diana Taylor
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
David Welch
Philip Taylor
Alistair Campbell
David Diamond
Daniel Feldhendler
Berenice Fisher
Julie Salverson
Pam Schweitzer
Lib Spry
Michael Taussig
Anti-Oppression Work
Alternate Roots
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