Charles Adams is a teacher, writer, dramaturg, and facilitator/joker in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. He has a PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in drama and theatre for youth from the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in areas of theatre and social change, especially in the fields of Theatre in Education, critical pedagogies, and transformation. He has worked as a teaching artist for 25+ years, training novice teaching artists as well as teaching educators in methodologies and philosophies for using embodiment as a means of resisting dehumanizing modes of education. Charles currently teaches as an adjunct at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches Introduction to Theatre, and at Augsburg University, where he teaches numerous courses in theatre historiography, script analysis, dramaturgy, acting and improvisation, and introduction to theatre. He also serves as the departmental dramaturg for the mainstage season.