Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Marc Bamuthi Joseph was a 2017 TED fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the Rockefeller Foundation's United States Artists 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 the spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also 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 different countries and his TED talk "You Have the Rite" has been viewed more than 5 million times. Bamuthi has completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera. His new opera Watch Night with music by Tamar-kali and direction by Bill T. Jones premiered at PAC NYC in 2023, and his collaboration with NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan "Carnival of the Animals" premiered and toured in 2024 and 2025. An emergent onscreen talent, he is among the featured performers in HBO’s screen adaptation of "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehesi Coates. A proud alumnus of Morehouse College, Bamuthi received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the California College of Arts in the spring of 2022 and was the recipient of a second honorary doctorate from Middlebury College in the spring of 2023.