ABOUT

Joe Salvatore creates theatre and video projects from interview-based data, found media artifacts, and historical events in an attempt to answer questions he has about the world.

Joe believes that performance has the power to disrupt pre-conceived notions and to challenge and change collaborators and audiences alike. Critics and audiences have called his work “engrossing and illuminating,” “courageous,” and “an incredible bit of truth.”

Joe is the director of the Verbatim Performance Lab and teaches in the Program in Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and American Alliance for Theatre and Education. He is a cluster member of the UBC Research-based Theatre Collaborative, an affiliated faculty researcher with the NYU Steinhardt Theatre and Health Lab, and an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

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RECENT PROJECTS

Verbatim performance lab

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making gay history: before stonewall