Brent Blair is an actor, designated Linklater voice instructor and MFT Intern who teaches voice in the BFA program and founded Applied Theatre Arts curricula at the USC School of Theatre where he is currently a senior lecturer. Awarded a Fulbright grant to research theatre and society among the Nigerian Igbo in 1992, he continued this exploration when he moved to USC in 1994 and implemented new courses in theatre and therapy, theatre in education and theatre in the community. In the Spring of 2001 he co-founded the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts, Los Angeles and has worked with Augusto Boal both here and in Brazil steadily for the last 10 years. He has lead theatre workshops for incarcerated youth, immigrant workers, and communities on the margins on both coasts and overseas for the last 20 years. As an actor, he has initiated roles in world premieres in New York, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Blair was voted one of the top ten most recommended USC teachers in the Fall of 2004 and received the Bill White Excellence in Teaching award from USC School of Theatre students in the Spring of 2005.

For more info please contact Brent Blair at bblair@usc.edu