Augusto Boal, City Councillor: Legislative Theatre and the Chamber in the Streets

TDR's Editor. He is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU, and Artistic Director of East Coast Artists. His most recent book is The Grotowski Sourcebook (Routledge, 1997), which he coedited with Lisa Wolford.

Received his PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. He is a scholar, translator, writer, performer, and film-maker. His research areas include Indian and Asian performance, colonialism and theatre, political and popular performance in the Third World, and music