Peter was Artistic Director of English Theatre at Canada’s National Arts Centre from 2005-2012. Some favorite productions include: The Wrong Son by Allen Cole, Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements, Congreve’s The Way of the World, and King Lear with Auggie Schellenberg. Peter has directed over 250 productions since 1984; their own plays and adaptations have been staged at Stratford, Shaw, National Arts Centre and the Segal Centre. He is the recipient of numerous theatre awards across Canada, and in 2009, was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Selected Theatre Credits: The Hooves Belonged to the Deer by Makram Ayache (In Arms Collective, Edmonton/Tarragon Theatre, Toronto); The Shadow of a Doubt by Edith Wharton (Shaw Festival); At the Beginning of Time by Steve Galluccio (Centaur Theatre, Montreal); The Man That Got Away by Martin Julien (Buddies in Bad Times, Toronto); The Sylvia Effect, writer and director (Theatre Kingston); Missing by Marie Clements and Brian Current (City Opera Vancouver); Hadrian by Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor (Canadian Opera Company)
Upcoming: Dion by Ted Dykstra and Steven Mayoff (Coalmine Theatre, Toronto) and Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Edmonton Opera).