Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre in Portland, OR and a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. His work there as creator/director/performer includes: GOOD (a critically acclaimed site specific Brecht adaptation), The War Project (2005 Drammy, Best ensemble), 7 Great Loves (five 2003 Drammy awards including Best Production and Best Director) and Witness Our Schools (9 months of Oregon and national touring). Rohd is a recipient of Theatre Communication Group’s 2001 New Generations Grant and their 2002 Extended Collaboration Grant with Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre. He is an associate artist with Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles and an artistic associate with Ping Chong & Co in New York City. In Fall 2007 he began a two year Visiting Professorship at Northwestern University as the Ethel M Barber Chair in Theatre with a focus on Devising Performance & Civic Engagement. Rohd’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the NEA, Rockefeller’s MAP Fund, Doris Duke Foundation and Arts Councils in states including CA, OR, LA, NE & VA. Michael’s current projects include Sojourn’s BUILT opening the 2008 Festival on Portland’s South Waterfront, The Race about the presidential election commissioned by Georgetown University, and creating Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s first company devised, site-specific work to premiere in 2010. He is author of the book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue, and has recently premiered new work in Illinois, New York, Oregon and Australia.