ABOUT
Hannah Fox, M.A., APPT, RYT 500, is an international trainer in Playback Theatre and applied performance, co-director of the New York School of Playback Theatre, and the founder of Pangea Playback Theatre (2020), Big Apple Playback Theatre (2002), and Eugene Playback Theatre (1996). Her current online company, Pangea Playback Theatre (PPT), is an international multi-cultural Playback troupe dedicated to using interactive theatre as a tool for social justice and positive change. Hannah has performed and conducted workshops for Salvation Army, Heifer International, Macmillan Publishing, Casey Foundation, the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson Institute, Ernst and Young, American Red Cross, New York University’s Robert Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Medical School, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services, Leadership Transformation Group, the Sickle Cell Association, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, JFK Customs and Border Patrol agency, and at the United Nations for the State Department. Her anti-bullying work in the schools combines Playback Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed as a way to address harassment and discrimination in schools.
Hannah was a tenured Professor in the dance and theatre department at Manhattanville College for 16 years until 2018 when she left full-time academia so that she can focus on her international teaching and diversity, equity and inclusion work. In addition to her social action theatre work, Hannah is also a theatre director, dancer, choreographer and certified yoga teacher. She has recently become a Positional Therapist, which involves muscle balancing to address chronic pain.
Hannah’s renowned book, Zoomy Zoomy: Improv Games and Exercises for Groups (2010) is used by theater practitioners and educators around the globe. Hannah has had articles published in The Applied Performance Companion (Routledge), Theatre Topics, TDR (The Drama Review), Contact Quarterly, and Utne Reader, as well chapters in various anthologies. Hannah is the daughter of the founders of Playback Theatre, Jonathan Fox and Jo Salas, and dedicated mother to a lively and lovely boy named Rio.