Elliot Leffler is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Toronto in Canada. As an artist and a scholar, Elliot explores theatre-making as a context for intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational dialogue. He has led theatre projects with white, black, and coloured South Africans, with Jews and Palestinians in Israel, with Kurdish and Arab Iraqis, with urban US high school students, and with racially-diverse houses of worship. His previous publications include articles in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre Research, Theatre Research International, The Drama Review, Theatre Topics, and Contemporary Theatre Review.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. "Stepping Out": The Physical Play and Incorporeal Dialogue of Applied Theatre Processes.- 3. Role Play: Performing Variability, Embracing Communitas, and Obsfucating Racial Tension.- 4. It's Personal: Autobiographical Stories as Catalysts for Playful Dialogue.- 5. Mythical Play: Embodying the Epic.- 6. Punctured Play: A Dramaturgy of Absorption, Interruption, and Interrogation.- 7. Epilogue.

Elliot Leffler is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Toronto in Canada. As an artist and a scholar, Elliot explores theatre-making as a context for intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational dialogue. He has led theatre projects with white, black, and coloured South Africans, with Jews and Palestinians in Israel, with Kurdish and Arab Iraqis, with urban US high school students, and with racially-diverse houses of worship. His previous publications include articles in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre Research, Theatre Research International, The Drama Review, Theatre Topics, and Contemporary Theatre Review.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. "Stepping Out": The Physical Play and Incorporeal Dialogue of Applied Theatre Processes.- 3. Role Play: Performing Variability, Embracing Communitas, and Obsfucating Racial Tension.- 4. It's Personal: Autobiographical Stories as Catalysts for Playful Dialogue.- 5. Mythical Play: Embodying the Epic.- 6. Punctured Play: A Dramaturgy of Absorption, Interruption, and Interrogation.- 7. Epilogue.

Elliot Leffler is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Toronto in Canada. As an artist and a scholar, Elliot explores theatre-making as a context for intercultural, interfaith, and intergenerational dialogue. He has led theatre projects with white, black, and coloured South Africans, with Jews and Palestinians in Israel, with Kurdish and Arab Iraqis, with urban US high school students, and with racially-diverse houses of worship. His previous publications include articles in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre Research, Theatre Research International, The Drama Review, Theatre Topics, and Contemporary Theatre Review.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. "Stepping Out": The Physical Play and Incorporeal Dialogue of Applied Theatre Processes.- 3. Role Play: Performing Variability, Embracing Communitas, and Obsfucating Racial Tension.- 4. It's Personal: Autobiographical Stories as Catalysts for Playful Dialogue.- 5. Mythical Play: Embodying the Epic.- 6. Punctured Play: A Dramaturgy of Absorption, Interruption, and Interrogation.- 7. Epilogue.