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Peter Hackett
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Professor
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Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities
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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.
From 1994-2004 he served as Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Cleveland Play House where he directed more than 20 productions and instituted several innovative artistic programs including the Associate Artists Program, The Next Stage Festival of New Plays, and the Professional Actor Training Program in partnership with Case Western Reserve University. Of the over 80 plays he produced at the Play House, six moved to Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters, earning national distinctions including Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations and the AT&T Onstage and Obie awards. From 1980-88, he was a member of the Tony Award-winning Denver Center Theater Company serving variously as Acting Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director for New Play Development, and Director of the National Theater Conservatory.
Mr. Hackett has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and AT&T Onstage and as a consultant for the theater programs at Georgetown University and Williams College.
He holds a B.A. in Theater from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of California, San Diego. Mr. Hackett is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Contact
646-3859
Sudikoff Lab, Room 204
HB 6204
Education
- B.A. Dartmouth College
- M.F.A. University of California at San Diego
Selected Publications
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Director, The Play That Goes Wrong, Northern Stage, 2004
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Director, The Sweet Science of Bruising , (American premiere), Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 2020
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Director, Orwell in America (world premiere), Northern Stage, VT (2015) and 59E59 Theater, NYC (2016)
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Artistic Director, The Cleveland Play House, 1994-2004
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Director, Twelve Angry Men, Hungarian National Theater, Miskolc and the Pecs National Theater Festival (2000)
