Prof. Pia Kleber

Pia Kleber is the Helen and Paul Phelan Chair in Drama at the UC-affiliated Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also the co-founder of the University’s new BMO Lab for Creative Research in the Arts, Performance, Emerging Technologies, and AI. Her distinguished career has spanned more than 4 decades and has bridged the academic and advancement worlds, years before fundraising became an expectation of academic leaders. She is an expert on Bertolt Brecht, the late German playwright and poet, and a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.