Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph (playwright/choreographer) is a Stanford University IDA resident artist, Broadway veteran, featured artist on the past two seasons of Russell Simmons’ DefPoetry on HBO and a recipient of 2002 and 2004 National Performance Network Creation commissions. His evening-length work Word Becomes Flesh represents the completion of his third play, having already staged De/Cipher (Theater Artaud and Yerba Buena Center, 2001) and No Man’s Land (ODC, 2002). Bamuthi’s performance schedule has carried him from dance apprenticeships in Senegal and Cuba to teaching fellowships in Bosnia and Japan.
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His proudest work has been with Youth Speaks where he mentors 13-19 year old writers and curates the Living Word Festival for Literary Arts. His next project, Scourge, reflects on the plight of Haiti in the post-colonial New World, and is being developed for the Living Word Project while Bamuthi is a Phillis Wattis Artist-in-Residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
To see a video of Bamuthi at work on stage and in the classroom, go to
http://www.kqed.org/spark/artists-orgs/marcbamuth.jsp#
Doug Herbert
Doug Herbert is the Special Assistant on Teacher Quality and Arts Education to the Secretary of Education. Prior to May 2004, he was the Director of Arts Education at the National Endowment for the Arts, a post he held since 1992. Under his leadership, the Endowment partnered with the U.S. Department of Education to support the development of national voluntary standards in arts education, and to establish a framework and testing specifications for inclusion of the arts in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as The Nation’s Report Card. Mr. Herbert served as the program’s assistant director for more than four years. As Assistant Director, he coordinated the Endowment’s cooperative efforts with the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement to develop an arts education research agenda and to recognize schools nationwide for their exemplary arts education programs under the Department’s Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Mr. Herbert was also the national program director for Very Special Arts, an educational affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.