Bogad's performance and research focuses on the intersection of art and activism, of performance and social movements. He has worked as a writer and performer with groups such as Billionaires for Bush, Absurd Response, Reclaim the Streets, and the Oil Enforcement Agency. Bogad's book, Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, was published by Routledge Press in the summer of 2005, and his essays have been published in TDR: The Drama Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, Red Pepper, Fifth Estate, Radical Society, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, International Brecht Society’s Communications, and the collections Place and Performance, A Boal Companion, The Art and Cultural Politics of Carnival, and Images of Mental Illness Through Text and Performance. While a graduate student at Northwestern in 1997-98, he conceived, wrote, and directed Haymarket, the first full-length drama about the Haymarket Square Confrontation of 1886-87, calling attention to that event’s all-too-relevant themes of terror, immigration, xenophobia, social amnesia, and the battle of historical commemoration that states and social movements wage, especially through monuments. His plays, and a one-person show about COINTELPRO and the Patriot Act, have been performed around the US, the UK, and Montreal. His work has been featured in both American and British documentaries including a BBC documentary called G8, Can You Hear Us? Bogad has received fellowships and grants to support his writing and performance work from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the British Academy and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Center for Arts in Society. He has taught classes such as “Satire, Irony and Protest” and “Oppositional Performance and Social Movements” at Northwestern University, University of Illinois-Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Birmingham in the UK. As a performer, he has appeared in several award-winning independent films, as well as stage and street theatre in New York, London, Edinburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Miami, and Santa Fe. Bogad is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Laboratory and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.