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Lisa Jo Epstein
lisa_jo_epstein.jpgLisa Jo Epstein is a theatre director, educator and community-based artist  who has trained extensively in Paris at the Center for the Theatre of the Oppressed and in the U.S. with Augusto Boal, founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed (internationally known as TO). For close to two decades, Lisa Jo has been involved in the TO movement, and has facilitated countless workshops in various locations from community centers to grass-roots activist organizations, schools and universities. She is the co-founder of Gas & Electric Arts, a movement and text-based theatre company whose work aims to shimmer with theatricality and shiver with social reality.