Steven Reisner

Steven Reisner is Senior Advisor and faculty at the International Trauma Studies Program at New York University, and is Adjunct Professor both in the Program in Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, Teachers College and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical School. In addition, Reisner is the director of Theater Arts Against Political Violence, which has helped create works of theater with Tibetan, Chilean, and Kosovar survivors of torture and exile in New York and in Kosovo. In an earlier career, Reisner was a director and actor, whose projects were performed at the Public Theater, La Mama E.T.C., Theater for the New City, and on tour in North and South America. He shared an Obie award for collaborative theater as a member of Joseph Chaikin’s Winter Project.