Dr. Barbara Wallace Grossman is a theater historian, voice specialist, director, and author. Her strong interests as a researcher and practitioner focus on contemporary musical theater, Holocaust-related theater and film, arts advocacy, and mindfulness practice to alleviate anxiety, develop resilience, and promote positive change. Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University, she also is a certified Koru Mindfulness instructor. Her publications include Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice (Indiana University Press), A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage (Southern Illinois University Press), and numerous book chapters. A presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts (1994-1999) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2000-2005), she was Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council from 2007-2019. In addition to her position on MASSCreative’s board of directors, she currently serves on the American Repertory Theater’s Board of Advisors, the Anti-Defamation League’s New England Regional Board, and the Jewish Arts Collaborative’s Arts Advisory Council. In 2018 she was honored to receive the Terezín Music Foundation’s Legacy Award for her “commitment to diversity, tolerance, and dialogue through acts of civil service, philanthropy, scholarship, or artistry.”