Bio
Lynn Hoare is a facilitator, applied theatre practitioner and community builder with over 30 years of experience designing participatory, justice-centered spaces for dialogue, reflection and transformation. Her practice is rooted in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Theatre of the Oppressed, and shaped by a commitment to shared power, honoring difference, and embodied learning. She has worked across sectors—including education, healthcare, juvenile justice, and grassroots organizing—using arts-based approaches to engage communities in deep, relational work. She is the Co-Director of the Center for Imagining & Performing Justice (CIPJ), a collective that uses applied theatre and the arts to foster connection and belonging.
Lynn is also the co-founder of the Performing Justice Project which devises original theatre with young people about individual and collective experiences of justice and injustice. Her co-authored book, Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project, won the distinguished book award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education (AATE). Lynn received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in Drama and Theatre with Youth and Communities, and her Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has lived and worked in Central Texas for the past 30 years, but grew up in the Pacific Northwest and still calls the mountains home.
Lynn Hoare is a facilitator, applied theatre practitioner and community builder with over 30 years of experience designing participatory, justice-centered spaces for dialogue, reflection and transformation. Her practice is rooted in Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Theatre of the Oppressed, and shaped by a commitment to shared power, honoring difference, and embodied learning. She has worked across sectors—including education, healthcare, juvenile justice, and grassroots organizing—using arts-based approaches to engage communities in deep, relational work. She is the Co-Director of the Center for Imagining & Performing Justice (CIPJ), a collective that uses applied theatre and the arts to foster connection and belonging.
Lynn is also the co-founder of the Performing Justice Project which devises original theatre with young people about individual and collective experiences of justice and injustice. Her co-authored book, Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project, won the distinguished book award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education (AATE). Lynn received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in Drama and Theatre with Youth and Communities, and her Master of Arts in Transformative Leadership from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has lived and worked in Central Texas for the past 30 years, but grew up in the Pacific Northwest and still calls the mountains home.