Verbatim Performance Lab

The Verbatim Performance Lab (VPL) uses verbatim performance techniques as an investigative tool to challenge and disrupt preconceived notions, implicit biases, and intolerances across a spectrum of political, cultural, and social beliefs and narratives. The lab will continue to produce content that challenges accepted political, cultural, and social understandings, while embracing the philosophy that social change emerges from dialogue, not monologue. We hope that educators and activists will find this content useful in their teaching and organizing. Joe Salvatore, clinical associate professor of educational theatre at NYU-Steinhardt, directs the lab using over 20 years of experience creating original documentary theatre, verbatim performance, and ethnodrama. We welcome new collaborators from across disciplines and perspectives to engage with us in conversations about potential avenues of exploration. To discuss ideas for a collaboration, please contact us at verbatimperformancelab@nyu.edu. VPL is a project of the NYU Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre.