ABOUT

Joe Salvatore is an artist-researcher who creates theatre and video projects from interview-based data, found media artifacts, and historical events. He 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, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the 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.

NEWS

Joe’s first book, Creating Ethnodrama: A Practical Approach, will be published by Guilford Press in Spring 2025. Stay tuned for information and updates!