Peter Hackett
Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities
Professor of Theater
Professor Hackett's teaching and directing have taken him to The United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and to cities across the United States, including the 59E59 Theater, NYC, Northern Stage, the Denver Center Theater, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the GeVa Theater, Lyric Stage Dallas, The Academy Theater Atlanta, The Commonweal Theater, The Cape Rep Theater, The Cleveland Play House, the National Theater, Miskolc, Hungary, the Vigszinhaz Theater in Budapest, and the Hungarian Theater Festival in Pecs.
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Department(s)
Theater
Education
- B.A. Dartmouth College
- M.F.A. University of California at San Diego
Selected Publications
Director, The Play That Goes Wrong, Northern Stage, 2004
Director, The Sweet Science of Bruising, (American premiere), Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 2020
Director, Orwell in America (world premiere), Northern Stage, VT (2015) and 59E59 Theater, NYC (2016)
Artistic Director, The Cleveland Play House, 1994-2004