Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal
Boal presenting a workshop on the Riverside Church in New York, 13 May 2008.
Born	(1931-03-16)16 March 1931 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	2 May 2009(2009-05-02) (aged 78) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation	Theatre practitioner
Genre	Theatre of the Oppressed

Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre.^[1]