PAUL PEERS
Email: paulpeers@ymail.com
- MFA Theatre Directing, Columbia University,
New York
Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban, Robert Woodruff, Brian Kulick. - Advanced Diploma of Arts (Acting), Centre for
the Performing Arts, Adelaide, Australia
David Kendall, Peter Dunn, Jenn Havelberg, Catherine Carter.
EDUCATION
-
Director
(Sep '12) To be announced Adelaide College of the Arts, South Australia
Blue Balloon by Libby Leonard, New Play Feast, New York Theatre Workshop
Shadow Boxing by James Gaddas, Step to the Left Productions
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, Adelaide Centre for the Arts
Talk to Me like the Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams, Sanford Meisner Theatre, New York
Love is in the Air by Dustin Helmer, Pig Brooch Inc. 2005 New York International Fringe Festival
Geöffnet by Katja Laganbach and Gundula Ibhler, Dosto Project, Berlin, Germany (Co-direction)
King Lear by William Shakespeare, Lightning Strike Theatre, Adelaide
Erotica in Black and White by Julia Britton, Budgie Lung Theatre, Adelaide (Reading)
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, Adelaide Fringe 2000, Ryushin Ensemble
THEATRE
- Director
- (June '12) La Voix Humaine by
Francis Poulenc, Pocket Opera New York
- (Nov '12) Mata Hari: The Great Imitator
by Matt Marks, 3-Legged Dog Residency
- Amadigi di Gaula by George
Frideric Handel, Boston Baroque
- La Finta Giardiniera by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Montclair State University
Xerxes by George Frideric Handel, Boston Baroque
- Associate Director
- Der Ferne Klang by Franz
Schreker, Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, Bard Summerscape (U.S.
Premiere)
- Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, Bard Summerscape
- Aida by Giuseppe Verdi,
Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger, Arizona Opera - Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Directed by Jay Jackson, Madison Opera
OPERA
- Dame Joan Sutherland Fund 2011
- Columbia University Fellowship 2002
- Arts SA Mentorship Award 2001, Arts SA Grant 2001, 2003
- Ian Potter Cultural Fellowship 2001, 2002, 2003
- Adelaide Chamber Orchestra Grant
- Faulding Assistant Director Fellowship, State Theatre Company of South Australia
- Awarded Third Prize for Kenbu HMV (His Master’s Voice) Tokyo, Japan
- Awarded First Prize for Kenbu HMV Nagoya, Japan
AWARDS
- 3rd Dan Japanese in Iaido (Sword Discipline)
- Shihan in Kenbu (Sword Dance) traditional Japanese Performing Art
- Speak Conversational Japanese
- 10 years as a Professional Chef concentrating in French and Japanese Cuisine
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Anne Bogart, Professor, Columbia University, Phone: +1 212 854 3408
- Jeffery Gall, Music Director, John J. Cali School of Music Phone: +1 973 783 5171
- Martin Pearlman, Artistic Director Boston Baroque +1 617 484 9200
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