Markus Kupferblum teaches opera directing and acting at Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts.  He has lectured at Yale University, CUNY, and Columbia University, among others, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and Rutgers University. In 2013 he published (in German) The Birth of Curiosity from the Spirit of Revolution: The Commedia dell'Arte as Political Popular Theater and, in 2023, The Beauty of Helena: A Guide to the Art  of Acting. In 2012 he founded the annual European Theatre Day of Tolerance. Tolerance.of Acting. In 2012 he founded the annual European Theatre Day of Tolerance.