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Marc Bamuthi Joseph
About this Artist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In spring 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was recently welcomed into the 2023/24 Emerson Collective Dial Fellowship. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi is the co-creator of the paradigm-shifting allyship training Healing Forward. He has lectured in 25 countries, and his TED talk “You Have The Rite” has been viewed more than 5 million times.
Bamuthi has recently completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Washington National Opera. His opera Watch Night, with music by Tamar-kali and direction by Bill T. Jones, premiered at PAC NYC in 2023, and his collaboration with New York City Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, Carnival of the Animals, premiered in 2024 and tours through 2025.
An emergent onscreen talent, he is among the featured performers in HBO’s screen adaptation of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He currently serves as the Vice President of Social Impact and Artistic Director of Cultural Strategy at the Kennedy Center. A proud alumnus of Morehouse College, Bamuthi received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts in 2022 and was the recipient of a second honorary doctorate from Middlebury College in 2023.