Jan Cohen-Cruz wrote Local Acts, Engaging Performance, and Remapping Performance, edited Radical Street Performance, and, with Mady Schutzman, co-edited Playing Boal and A Boal Companion. She was Director of Field Research for A Blade of Grass, which supports socially-engaged artists, and directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. A longtime professor at NYU, Cohen-Cruz initiated Drama’s minor in applied theater and received ATHE’s Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement (2012). Jan was evaluator for the US State Department/ Bronx Museum cultural diplomacy initiative smARTpower and for seven initiatives of NYC’s Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) t. She is writing, with Rad Pereira, Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who’ve Lived It.