Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the 2011 Alpert Award winner in Theater and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. This summer, his evening length work red black and GREEN:a blues was nominated for a 2013 Bessie Award for “Outstanding Production (of a work stretching the boundaries of a traditional form).” Bamuthi’s next piece in this artistic vein is called /peh-LO-tah/, and is a Balinese style shadow play that examines global economies and sexual identities through the lens of soccer’s World Cup. Mr. Joseph is currently completing new works for the Philadelphia Opera and South Coast Repertory Theater while serving as Director of Performing Arts at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.