Author: Jan Cohen-Cruz

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.

Articles by this author

The Civic Turn: Expanding Artistic Collaborations

On the occasion of the publication of their new books, Extended Play advisory board members Aaron Landsman and Jan Cohen-Cruz talked together about one of the themes in their work, the “civic turn” in theater.

Cry You One by ArtSpot Productions and Mondo Bizarro in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Expanding Where, Why, How, and With Whom Artists in the United States Work

Jan Cohen-Cruz invites theater makers working in community-based and socially engaged art in the United States to take part in research about commonalities across the field, the practices and principles adhered to, where people work and with whom, and more.