Summary: Lindsay has officially maxed out her theatre nerd status this week. NYU’s Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Theatre and Director of the Verbatim Performance Lab, Joe Salvatore, joins Lindsay to talk about all things verbatim theatre, community engagement through the arts and so much more. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE! NYC listeners: The next collaboration between the Verbatim Performance Lab and Artists' Literacies Institute is called The Democratic Field 3 and will take place on November 14, 2019, at 7:00pm at the Centre for Social Innovation in NYC. More information can be found at http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/verbatimperformancelab Lab sites: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/verbatimperformancelab Twitter: @verbatimperflab Instagram and Facebook: @verbatimperformancelab Joe Salvatore sites: www.joesalvatore.com Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @profjoesal More about our guest: Joe Salvatore is a Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt where he teaches courses in verbatim performance, ethnodrama, applied/community-engaged theatre, and new play development. He is also the creator and director of the Verbatim Performance Lab whose projects include The Democratic Field 1 & 2 (with Artists' Literacies Institute), The Serena Williams Project, The Kavanaugh Files (staged version at Geva Theatre Center and NYU), The Veterans Story Collecting Project (Johnson County, KS), No(body) but nobody, The Grab 'Em Tapes, The Moore/Jones Challenge, The Lauer/Conway Flip, and Of a Certain Age (with The Actors Fund). School-based performance projects include The Act(ion) Project (Chapin School, NYC) and Boxed Out (Bentley School, multiple venues in CA and 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival). In 2017, Joe collaborated with economist Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD-France), to create Her Opponent, a verbatim re-staging of excerpts of the 2016 U. S. presidential debates with gender-reversed casting. This production was nominated for an Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience and received media coverage from NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, Fox News, MSNBC, and ABC News, among others. In 2018, Joe received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Johnny Saldaña Outstanding Professor of Theatre Education Award for demonstrated excellence in teaching, research, creative activity, and service. While teaching at NYU, Joe has received the University's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award, NYU Steinhardt's Teaching Excellence Award, and the NYU LGBTQ Student Center's Dedication to Education Award. Joe is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and he is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. If you have questions or ideas for future episodes reach out to Lindsay anytime at lindsay@retheatreco.com. You can find out more about RE:THEATRE and Lindsay’s work at www.retheatreco.com, by following RE:THEATRE on Facebook or by following Lindsay on instagram @re.theatre.
