MARK S. WEINBERG
3321 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
(414) 403-6338
contact@center-for-applied-theatre.com

EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1986. Dissertation title: "Performance Generation: The History and Evolution of Collective Theatre in America."
M.F.A. University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1977. Major in Stage Direction.
MA State University of New York-New Paltz, 1973. Major in English Literature.
BA Wilkes College, 1969. Major in English.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – 2000-present
Professor – University of Wisconsin Colleges - Dept. of Communication and Theatre Arts – 1983-2002
Assistant Professor and Director of Theatre – Marycrest College, Davenport, Iowa. 1978-1980.
Visiting Instructor – Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin. Spring 1977.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder – Center for Applied Theatre
With Jenny Wanasek. Duties include facilitating performances, conducting workshops, co-authoring scripts, and co-directing productions.

Stage Director
I have directed more than 50 productions in fifteen different community, academic, and professional theatres in the Midwest
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Practitioner – Theatre of the Oppressed
I have studied Image and Forum Theatre and Rainbow of Desire with Augusto Boal on several occasions, trained with several U.S. practitioners (including Douglas Paterson, Michael Rohd, Marc Weinblatt, and David Diamond) and have given presentations and conducted workshops with community groups, community service professionals, educators, and students in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Playwright – Human Experience Theatre
I wrote four plays for this company focusing on the legal system and violence in the school and workplace.

Founder and Co-Director – Other Theatre Company Madison, Wisconsin, 1980-1983. As co-director of this non-profit, collectively-organized, professional company, I participated in the creation of scripts, performance, and administration, organized rehearsals, conducted workshops, and staged plays.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Challenging the Hierarchy: Collective Theatre in the United States. Greenwood Press, 1992.
“Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation” in Audience Participation: Crossing Time and Genre. Greenwood Press, forthcoming.
“Arts Advocacy Roundtable.” Anne Marie Costa, editor. Theatre Topics 11.1 (March 2001).
“Community-Based Theatre: A Participatory Model for Social Transformation.” Theatre Symposium 8:2000.
“We Are All Theatre: An Interview with Augusto Boal” in The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena. Critical Press, 1998. (Originally appeared in High Performance. Summer, 1996.)
"Images of Justice and the Socially Disenfranchised" in Making Connections I: Humanities and the Criminal Justice System. University of Wisconsin Centers, 1985.
"Unity in Diversity." Theaterwork Magazine. Jan./Feb. 1982.

REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS
“Striking the First Blow: Theatre for Social Change in K-12.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, 2003.
“Creating TO Performance Pieces: From Full Forum to the One-Line Play.” Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, 2003.
“Introduction to Image Theatre.” PTO Conference, 2002.
“‘Loosing Control:’ Passing Power from the Joker to Participants.” PTO Conference, 2001.
"Training Toward Community Partnership: Preparing People to Facilitate Community-Based Performance Projects." ATHE Conference, 1999.
“Liberatory Pedagogy: The Principles of Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed Applied to the Film and Theatre Classroom.” Panel, “Performance as Cultural Intervention: Critical Pedagogy in and Out of the Classroom.” ATHE Conference, 1998
“Permanent Clarity: Students, Stereotypes, and Image Theatre.” Panel, “Questioning What We Do: Using Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques in Educational Settings.” ATHE Conference, 1997.
“We Are All Theatre: A Workshop on the Image Theatre Techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.” Eighth International Festival of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Toronto, 1997.
"We Are All Theatre: A Workshop in the Techniques of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed." Australasian Drama Studies Conference, Canberra, Australia, 1996.
"Hegemony, Con Artists and High-Heeled Shoes: Seeing Beyond the Story." Panel/workshop, "Putting Our Discipline Downstage Center." ATHE Conference, 1995.
"Presenting the Process: Principles of an Activist Aesthetic." Panel, "Skinny-Dipping in the Moat: Activism and Aesthetics; Theory and Practice." ATHE Conference, 1994.