Mady Schutzman is a writer, scholar, and theater artist. She received her master's degree in sociocultural anthropology and her doctorate in performance studies at NYU. Schutzman has published academic scholarship, creative non-fiction, and fiction in a diverse range of anthologies and journals including The Drama Review, Women and Performance, American Journal of Communication, Journal of Medical Humanities, Errant Bodies, and Black Clock. Her book, The Real Thing: Performance, Hysteria, and Advertising (Wesleyan 1999) is an image driven text that critically addresses the mediated social body and mass consumption of popular advertising. She has also contributed text for several art events curated by Steven Hull, and most recently by installation artist, Jonathan Berger. Schutzman is an internationally acclaimed scholar and freelance practitioner of the techniques of Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed. She is co-editor with Jan Cohen-Cruz of Playing Boal: Theater, Therapy, Activism (Routledge 1994) and A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2006). She is author of UPSET! (2006), a Boalian style play, about the anti-hero Rodney King and the L.A. riots of 1992. It was produced at Plaza de la Raza and REDCAT in 2006, and at the University of Southern California in 2007.