Steven Raider-Ginsburg, MFA
Director, Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities
Joined USJ: 2015
Steven Raider-Ginsburg is currently the director of the University of Saint Joseph’s
Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities — a mission-based, world-class
arts presenter that receives over 30,000 guests a year. Steven began his career at New
WORLD Theater at UMass Amherst before going on to work with some of the nation’s most illustrious theater-makers, including: the San Francisco Mime Troupe,
Anna Deveare-Smith, Shakespeare and Company, Augusto Boal, Michael Rohd and
Sojourn Theater, Steve Cosson and The Civilians, and others. After moving to Hartford,
Conn., he co-founded the award- winning, original-creation theater company,
HartBeat Ensemble, where he continues to serve as artistic director. American Theater
magazine honored him as one of 25 young theater artists most likely to influence
theater in the next 25 years and, in 2014, he was chosen as one of Hartford’s 40 under
40. He is a member of the 2012 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and holds an MFA in
Directing from Boston University, as well as a certificate in Curatorial Practice from
Wesleyan University. He has served on the Hartford Commission on Cultural Affairs, is
a current Yale University Pierson College Fellow, and is an alumnus of the National
Arts Strategies' Chief Executive Program. Academic Degrees: MFA, Boston University
Contact Information: 860.231.5529 | sginsburg@usj.edu