Brooklyn College
Dale Byam Assistant Professor of Theater in Education daleb@brooklyn.cuny.edu Dr. Byam, who holds the Ph.D. from New York University, focuses on theater as a tool for development. She developed and implemented NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts program for training artists to use theater as a tool of education and social change. Over the past twelve years Dr. Byam has coordinated the teaching artists for the educational theater companies Plays for Living and the Creative Arts Team, and has trained teaching artists in the New York City public school system. Internationally, she has worked with agencies in Canada, Japan, and diverse countries in southern Africa to develop programs to use theater as a tool of development. Before coming to Brooklyn College she taught at NYU and Arizona State University West. She is the author of several articles on African theater and theater for development. Her recent book, Community in Motion, documents the efforts by African artists to use Freirian pedagogy as the foundation for their cultural activities. She founded Theater In a New Key (THINK), a youth-centered company that focused on developing young professional artists to address the social concerns of disenfranchised communities. Her plays include Back Home, the Second Burial, an adaptation of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. She directed the Tisch School of the Arts’s production of Mule Bone, worked as accents and dialects coach on NYU’s production of Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Detained: a Prison Diary, and toured nationally and internationally with her one-woman show, Back Home. Her current projects include research on indigenous performers of the Caribbean and documenting the course of performance-based art programs that emerge during times of political and social upheaval. mailto:daleb@brooklyn.cuny.edushapeimage_2_link_0
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