Joe Salvatore

Joe Salvatore

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Clinical Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre

Phone: 212-998-5266
Email: js1655@nyu.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

• Music and Performing Arts Professions
• Educational Theatre

Curriculum Vitae/Syllabi

• Curriculum Vitae

Joe Salvatore is a playwright and director and has been on the faculty of the Program in Educational Theatre since Fall 2002. He teaches courses in acting, directing, Shakespeare, applied theatre, new play development, and theatre pedagogy. Since August 2005, Joe has also served as a Faculty Fellow in Residence in the Third Avenue North residence hall. Recent original plays include open heart (FringeNYC 2010) and III (FringeNYC 2008-Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play).  Past directing projects for NYU include Plays from the Provincetown Players,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 writing and directing credits can be viewed by clicking here.

Joe serves as the Artistic/Education Director for Learning Stages, an award-winning youth theatre company in southern New Jersey.  He also consults for YoungArts, the signature program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, directing regional performances in Los Angeles (Warner Bros. Steven J. Ross Theater and the Colburn School) and Miami (Colony Theatre and New World Center).   From 2003-2009 Joe served as the curriculum consultant for Dance Theater Workshop's schooltime series, creating curriculum guides for twenty dance and theatre productions, most of which were premieres.

Joe’s publications include his play III in Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 (Applause), excerpts of his play open heart in Johnny Saldana's book, Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press), with the full performance text available through the new digital theatre library, Indie Theater Now, and "Overcoming fear and resistance when teaching Shakespeare" in The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy (Routledge).   

Joe is currently working on a new devised play, Project | Hope, commissioned by the Department of Theater at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. The play will premiere in April 2012 as part of a series of exhibitions and performances about and inspired by violins recovered from the Holocaust. These 18 violins, known as “Violins of Hope,” were first played publicly in 2008 in Jerusalem, and they will make their North American debut in a concert to be played at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.  

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Joe worked as the Education and Humanities Manager at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Joe has also taught courses at Barnard College, Long Island University-Brooklyn campus, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.  He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.