Marc Bamuthi Joseph
About this Artist
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a TED Global Fellow, an Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. He is also the winner of the 2011 Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2022 inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi has lectured in 25 different countries and his TED Talk “You Have The Rite” has been viewed more than five million times.
Bamuthi has most recently completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera. His most recent orchestral work “Good News Mass” with music by Carlos Simon premiered with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in April 2025. His latest collaboration with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), The Forgiveness Suite, was released as a live recorded album in August 2025 with Bright Shiny Things.
An emergent on-screen talent, he is among the featured performers in HBO’s screen adaptation of “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehesi Coates. He served as Vice President of Social Impact at The Kennedy Center from 2019-2025. A proud alumnus of Morehouse College, Bamuthi received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts in the Spring of 2022 and was the recipient of subsequent Honorary Doctorates from Middlebury College in the Spring of 2023 and the Kansas City Institute of the Arts in 2024.