Grisha Coleman

Professor of Theater Arts

Email: gcolema1@mit.edu
Office: W97-269 Studio
Phone: (617) 253-3210

Grisha Coleman is a full professor in the MIT Music & Theater Arts Section. Her research explores tensions between our physiological, technological, and ecological systems as well as human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit.

Coleman’s practice engages an interdisciplinary approach to these explorations. Coleman received the Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Arts Technologies Lab Award. Her work has been supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, MacDowell, the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Stanford University’s Mohr Visiting Artist program, and the Surdna Foundation. Coleman was previously a professor at Northeastern University and an associate professor at Arizona State University. She earned an MFA in music composition and integrated media from California Institute of the Arts.