AATE 2025 National Conference

Joe Salvatore is a Clinical Professor of Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt, where he teaches courses in ethnodrama, verbatim performance, community-engaged theatre, and new play development. He also serves as the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. In 2017, Joe founded the Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL), which, under his direction, has created over 25 video and live performance projects exploring a range of political, social, and cultural topics and facilitated outreach and education programs throughout the United States. Joe is a cluster member of the University of British Columbia’s Research-based Theatre Collaborative, a collaborating faculty member with Arts & Health @ NYU, an advisory board member for Artists’ Literacies Institute, an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a member of Dramatists Guild of America. Joe’s book Creating Ethnodrama: A Theatrical Approach to Research will be released by Guilford Press in Summer 2025.