About

My name is Mauricio Tafur Salgado and in this moment I am mestizo+first gen born to proudly subversive Colombians with graduate degrees + brown skinned + aspiring bio-regionalist + cis-hetero + married + father + artist pursuing justice and healing through a decolonial framework. I come from the everglades watershed, my antepasados and a solid plate of my grandma’s arepas and buñuelos. My educational background begins in the public schools and community centers of South Florida among migrant farm workers. It was among those folks that I learned the power of the theatre to break through patriarchal and generational chasms.

I then continued my training as a mischief-maker at the Juilliard School; in pedagogies of resistance at Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and in radical breathing at Brown University/Trinity Rep’s MFA.

And somewhere at the soft center of all of that is this continuous dance that I am joyously fumbling through with my beloveds and the divine.

I am currently an Assistant Arts Professor, the Director of Applied Theatre, and the Associate Chair in Undergraduate Drama at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. I am also a co-founder of Arts Ignite (formerly Artists Striving to End Poverty), A Core Faculty member with artEquity, a Co-Producer of CRAFT Courses Programming with the CRAFT Institute, a Co-Creative Producer with the Remember2019 Collective. and a Faculty Fellow with The Arts and Health Lab@NYU.

I live with my beloveds, Cynthia, Eliseo, and Maite, about a block party from the GW Bridge in Washington Heights, the occupied territory of the Wappinger and Munsee Lenape.

Here is a link to an interview with Leah Walsh for The Compass Podcast: http://thecompasspodcast.com/episode-104-mauricio-salgado/

Here is a link to an interview with Ched Myers for the Center & Library for the Bible and Social Justice: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bartcast-50-mauricio-tafur-salgado/id1317479632?i=1000492908351

Contact

Email: Mauriciotsalgado@gmail.com