Mauricio Salgado

EDUCATION

BFA in Drama, The Juilliard School
MFA in Directing, Trinity Rep/Brown University

Research Interests 

Performance Activism; Socially Engaged Theatre; Decolonial Methodologies; Theatre & Health; Community Organizing; Restorative Practices

Courses Taught 

Introduction to Theatre Studies
Ethics of Collaboration
The Cultivating Change Makers Lab
Approaching Indigenous Theatre

Mauricio Tafur Salgado is an Associate Arts Professor of Theatre Studies, Director of Applied Theatre, and the Chair of the Drama Department.

Mauricio Tafur Salgado identifies as unromantically mestizo + spanglish speaking +  first gen. born to proudly subversive Colombians with graduate degrees + brown skinned + aspiring bio-regionalist + cis-hetero + married + father + artist pursuing justice and healing through a decolonial framework. He omes from the everglades watershed, his antepasados and a solid plate of his abuelas arepas and buñuelos. His educational background begins in the public schools and community centers of South Florida among migrant farm workers. “Fue con el pueblo, that I learned the power of the theatre to break through patriarchal, and generational chasms

He is the co-founder of Arts Ignite and the Remember 2019 Collective, A Core Faculty member with artEquity, a Program Director with the Collective Fund of the Distracted Globe Foundation, and a Faculty Fellow with The Arts and Health Lab@NYU, where he recently co-authored a commission for the World Health Organization titled, Creative Care: A Resource Guide for Artists Working in Humanitarian Conflicts.