Jeffrey Allen Steiger

Jeffrey Allen Steiger is the Creative Director of AWED Theater at Florida International University, the Artistic Director of The New Theater of Medicine, an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the founding, former Artistic Director of the CRLT Players. In addition to serving as a consultant for business, academia, and medicine, applying traditional and out-of-the-box interactive techniques to work with professionals, professors, health providers, and administrators, Mr. Steiger regularly works with the American Society for Engineering Education, applying theater as a tool to examine climate, culture, and salient issues related to engineering and engineering education. He has written and directed a diverse range of sketches and plays and has presented on his educational approaches to over 100 academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Nagoya, Japan. Collaborations include the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Universidad de la República/Uruguay, and exploratory work with Robert Mankoff, editor of the New Yorker Cartoons, on a brief project that used improvisation to examine Mankoff's ideas regarding status and the psycho-biological roots of humor. Mr. Steiger's recognitions include the TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence, and the James T. Neubacher Award.