Workshop: Theatre of the Oppressed by Jiwon Chung

Jiwon Chung is a professional actor and director. He is a key theorist and exponent of Theater of the Oppressed and its integration with somatics, martial arts, applied theater, pedagogy, and media activism. He teaches internationally and has held faculty positions at St. Mary’s College, the Graduate Theological Union, Dominican University and has served as the president of the national organization for Theater of the Oppressed. Jiwon also teaches at the Berkeley Repertory School of Theater. He has worked intensively in the areas of conflict transformation, environmental justice, police violence, racism, homelessness, war & refugee trauma, torture, genocide, global militarism, and other issues of systemic and structural violence and injustice. Jiwon’s approach to individual, interpersonal and institutional change is informed by his background as a war veteran, martial artist, and four decades of Vipassana meditation.