# Augusto Boal

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Embodying Empathy: Performing Arts and SEL - With Sharmila Miller

In this conversation with Sharmila Miller, we learn about her experience as a drama teacher and anti-racism facilitator within education and performing arts. Sharmila shares how the process of teaching drama inherently involves engaging students with empathy, perspective taking, conflict resolution…

Why You Need to Dream Bigger (And How Hope Actually Works) | Ep. 274

When was the last time you really let yourself DREAM? Like, gave yourself full permission to get wild and audacious about your future?If you're like me, you might think you're a big dreamer—but you're actually thinking smaller than you're capable of.  In this solo episode, I'm getting nerdy about …

Augusto Boal - Political Street Theatre

Augusto Boal enters the story of modern theatre the way a spark enters dry grass: not politely, not quietly, and not with any respect for the comfortable boundaries that keep “art” safely separated from “life.” If you look at the twentieth century’s theatre revolution as a long argument about what …

First Lines and Buried Seeds

Not all is as MEH as it first appears when John embarks on the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Palm fronds and an ancient plea turned praise adorn the political street theatre of Jesus astride a baby donkey. It calls to mind the Singing Resistance happening in Minneapolis - St. Paul in these …

Certainty Kills Civic Imagination | Michael Rohd

Send us Fan Mail Bio: Michael Rohd has spent thirty-five years asking the same question from increasingly systemic angles: what does it take for people who don't usually talk to each other to actually talk, and what happens when they do?He started in 1991, running theater workshops on the secret fi…

173: ART IS CHANGE – ART IS RESISTANCE

ART IS CHANGE – Art is Resistance What happens when freedom of expression is under pressure? When speech narrows, fear rises, and the future feels smaller than it should? In this episode, we explore how activist artists and cultural organizers have historically stepped into these moments—not as dec…

Eva Lopez on Act4Change: Applying Theatre of the Oppressed to building social justice in The Bronx

We talk with Eva Lopez about Act4Change, a Theatre of the Oppressed project in the Bronx. Eva Lopez uses theater techniques to invite children and youth to envision liberation and to empower them to resist oppression. Audiences become spect-act…

Gavin Crichton | Arts Educator Interviews

Gavin Crichton, co-founder of Active Inquiry, joins us this week for an Arts Educator Interview.   Gavin is the founder and current Artistic Director of Active Inquiry in Edinburgh. Before setting up Active Inquiry, Gavin worked as a freelance drama worker and as Research Assistant at the Centre …

Dr Ricci-Jane Adams - Intuitive Intelligence as a Strategy of Decolonisation

In this episode, I share more about my PhD thesis, and my 30+ years as a practitioner and philosopher of decolonisation. Beginning in the 90's during my Theatre degree, I studied Augusto Boal, Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornes, and progressive feminist and postcolonial approaches to critique Weste…

Creative Burnout and How to Recover From It with Kevin Chung

Chat with Just Rest What happens when two restless creatives sit down to talk about big leaps, burnout, and why rest might be the fiercest protest of all? In this episode, I'm sharing my very first Substack Live, a conversation with my friend and fellow podcaster Kevin Chung of Standout Creatives. …