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The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work! Why Wildcard? Because to be a ""Joker"" in the Theatre of the Oppressed is to play many different roles and to navigate uncertainty with joy. Written by experienced Jokers from Theatre of the Oppressed NYC (TONYC), this workbook is a graphic, interactive, and accessible guide to inspire and support facilitation and difficultation in many contexts - we hope you'll scribble in the margins, tear out the pages, and challenge the ideas within.

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LIZ MORGAN is the Director of Training & Pedagogy at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC where she has facilitated since 2015. She currently Jokers TONYC's Rapid Response troupe, which she launched in 2017 to specialize in experimental creative advocacy projects. Liz has shared her expertise in Theatre of the Oppressed with presentations and workshops at Yale, Princeton, Brown, NYU, Fairfield University, CUNY, Virginia Tech and Franklin; Marshall College. As a lead teaching artist in NYC, Liz has worked with Opening Act, The Other Side and People's Theatre Project. She holds both a B.A. and M.F.A. from Brown University where she was a graduate teaching fellow as well as the recipient of the Davis Wickham Prize for Excellence in Playwriting. Her other recent honors include the 2017 Torchbearer for Black Theatre Award, a 2018 Drammy nomination in the category of Best Original Script for her play, The Clark Doll and a 2019 Honorable Mention from The Kilroys for her play Deliver: Letters to the Motherland from A Foreign Body. Before leaving to help form ""The Fled,"" a collective rooted in anti-racist values, Liz was also a resident writer at The Flea. Her work has been published by the Huffington Post, Flamingo Rampant, the LIC One Act Festival Anthology, 8:46 Fresh Perspectives and Athena Talks. Liz recently completed Columbia University's Theatre of Change course in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition. She has also studied abroad at the London Dramatic Academy, Jana Sanskriti CTO in India and the Yeredon Center for Malian Arts. She is currently a member of the A.R.T./NY Body Autonomy Leadership Council and TCG's 2021 Rising Leaders of Color cohort. www.LizMorganOnline.com Sulu LeoNimm (they/them) is Executive Director at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, and has worked with TONYC since 2011 as a Joker facilitating Forum Theatre Troupes, Joker Trainings, and workshops. Sulu has been a Brooklyn-based theater artist and physical theater performer since 2003, enthralled with making ensemble-devised work. They created and toured work as co-founder of Pack of Others, and performed with various ensembles in NYC, Denver and Seattle. They are a part of Trans Boxing, and collaborator on Obvious Agency's 2025 project, Space Opera. Katy Rubin is a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner based in the UK. She is currently working with city councils and community groups via Legislative Theatre to co-create policies that are human-centered, equitable, and innovative, with a focus on housing justice, the climate crisis, and cultural policy. She is also a founder and former executive director of Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. Katy trained at Center for Theatre of the Oppressed - Rio with Augusto Boal in Brazil, and has facilitate

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