Jan Cohen-Cruz wrote Local Acts, Engaging Performance, and Remapping Performance, edited Radical Street Performance, and, with Mady Schutzman, co-edited Playing Boal and A Boal Companion. She was Director of Field Research for A Blade of Grass, an organization that supported socially-engaged artists, and co-founded its magazine. From 2007–2012, she directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a consortium of colleges and universities committed to civic engagement, and co-founded its journal, Public. Cohen-Cruz earned her PhD at NYU Performance Studies and was a longtime professor in the Drama Department, initiating a minor in applied theater. In 2012, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement. Jan was evaluator for the US State Department/ Bronx Museum cultural diplomacy initiative smARTpower and for seven of New York City’s Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) projects. With Pam Korza, she researched and wrote a field guide for artist/municipal agency partnerships. Her most recent book, co-written with Rad Pereira, Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who Lived It, was published in June 2022.