Brent Blair
- Associate Professor of Theatre Practice
- Director, Theatre and Social Change
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Expertise Summary
Expert in Theatre & Therapy, Theatre in Education and Theatre & Social Change
Expertise
- Theatre and Social Change
- Labor exploitation, immigrant rights, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, prison justice also called "Applied Theatre Arts"
- Theatre of the Oppressed (senior practitioner)
- Theatre and therapy, drug/alcohol recovery, collective trauma
- Theatre in Education
- Theatre for instructional purposes in K-12 classrooms
- International social change theatre
- Voice training for actors
Languages
- French
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Additional Information
- International work in Africa (Rwanda), Asia (Afghanistan, India), Europe (Ukraine)
- Teach Global Leadership Fellows of the World Economic Forum techniques in Theatre of the Oppressed, presented twice at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Theatre and Social Change
- Published articles on theatre work with “at-risk youth”, prison populations, collective trauma