Joe Salvatore teaches courses in acting, directing, Shakespeare, applied theatre, and theatre pedagogy in the Program in Educational Theatre. He also directs the program’s Shakespeare Initiative, which includes the touring Shakespeare-to-Go company, the Shakespeare Youth Ensemble, and the Looking for Shakespeare summer youth program.  Past directing projects for NYU include The Class Project, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, As You Like It, Polaroid Stories, Cartographic Musings, Measure for Measure, Richard II, transfigured, Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, and 5 X Wilder: Plays from the Seven Deadly Sins Cycle by Thornton Wilder.  Additional directing work has been seen at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, LAByrinth Theater Company’s Barn Series, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New WORLD Theater, the Del Corazon Festival, INROADS: The Americas, Jump-Start Performance Space, Santa Fe Stages, the University of Massachusetts, and NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences series.  Joe has presented his research on arts assessment at conferences around the world including UNESCO’s first-ever World Conference on Arts Education convened in Lisbon, Portugal in 2006.  Joe was awarded the NYU Steinhardt Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006, and he received an NYU Curriculum Development Fund Grant to support his innovative approach to teaching Shakespeare.  Joe is also a two-time recipient of Steinhardt’s Faculty Challenge Grant in the Art and Culture category.  Joe’s recent play III explores the fifteen-year ménage between the writer Glenway Wescott, the photographer George Platt Lynes, and Monroe Wheeler, a past Director of Exhibitions at MoMA and was featured as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival where it received the Fringe’s Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play.  Joe currently consults for Dance Theater Workshop, youngARTS/New York, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and he serves as the Artistic/ Education Director for Learning Stages, an award-winning youth theatre company in southern New Jersey that will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2010.  Joe’s recent writing projects include an interview theatre piece about gay male couples living in open relationships and a chapter on teaching Shakespeare for The International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching (Routledge – Taylor and Francis, 2010).  Joe is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the Educational Theatre Association, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.