Interview with Michael Road, lead artist for Civic Imagination at Center for Performance and Civic Practice

The Clarke Forum For Contemporary Issues
The Clarke Forum For Contemporary Issues
Interview with Michael Road, lead artist for Civic Imagination at Center for Performance and Civic Practice
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Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of the 19-year-old national, ensemble-based Sojourn Theatre. In 2015, he received an Otto Rene Castillo award for Political Theater and The Robert Gard Foundation Award for Excellence. He is an institute professor at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts and is author of the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue. He is lead artist for Civic Imagination at Center for Performance and Civic Practice where current initiatives include The Catalyst Initiative, Civic Body & Learning Labs. He was the 2013-2016 Doris Duke Artist-in-Residence at Lookingglass Theater Company in Chicago. Recent/Current projects include collaborations &/or productions with Goodman Theater, Bush Foundation, Singapore Drama Educators Association, Americans for the Arts, Nashville’s MetroArts, ArtPlac Americae, Cleveland Public Theater, United Way, Catholic Charities USA, Cook Inlet Housing Authority Alaska, ASU/Gammage & Steppenwolf Theater.Interview conducted by Scout Meredith Best ’21
Produced on: 9/30/2020
Genre: Interview
Credits
Interviewee: Michael Rohd
Moderator: Scout Meredith Best