Jodi Kanter’s artistic focus is on strengthening communities through theatrical improvisation, oral history collection, writing and performance. To this end, over the last twenty-five years, she has created dozens of workshops and performances in a wide variety of settings, including prisons, hospices, libraries and community-based nonprofits. For the last fifteen years, she has been a faculty member in the Theatre and Dance program at George Washington University. She has led theater programs at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and recently co-led a Life Stories program for nurse educators at Theatre Lab. She has also served as a production dramaturg for many theaters around the city including Theatre J, Mosaic, Round House and Olney Theatre Center. Jodi’s scholarship includes two monographs, both published in the Theatre in the Americas Series at Southern Illinois University: Performing Loss (2007) and Presidential Libraries as Performance (2016). In June of 2023, Jodi will graduate from Lesley University with a Master’s Degree in Drama Therapy.