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
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Director
- Songs from the F-Train/Dead Mall Songs by Gilda Lyons/Peter Hilliard, UrbanArias
- The Monster in the Maze by Jonathan Dove, Baltimore Choral Arts Society
- Cerere Placata by Niccolo Jommelli, Opera Lafayette, Kennedy Center, Washington DC
- Little Death Vol. 1 by Matt Marks, Roulette Brooklyn, Prototype Festival 2019
- Artemisia by Nahma Sandrow, ARTEK, New York
- Mata Hari by Matt Marks, libretto Paul Peers, West Edge Opera, Berkeley
- Mata Hari by Matt Marks, libretto Paul Peers, PROTOTYPE Festival, New York
- Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi, Hawaii Opera Theatre
- Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi, Vancouver Opera
- La Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc at the Alchemy Theater Lab, New York
- I'll Never See the Stars Again Art of the Early Keyboard, Peak Performances, Alexander Kasser Theater
- La Voix Humaine by Francis Poulenc, Pocket Opera New York
- 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 -
Director
Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, Adelaide College of the Arts, 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 - Associate Director
- Assosiate Director at multiple festival, theatre and opera companies: Opera National du Rhin, State Theatre of South Australia, Bard Summerscape, Beijing Music Festival, Utah Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Boston, New York City Opera, Spoleto USA Festival and Gotham Chamber Opera.
OPERA
THEATRE AND MUSIC-THEATRE
- 2013 - 2017 HERE Arts Resindency Program (HARP) for the Mata Hari Project
- 2015 Saari Resindency Program (Finland) for the Ianfu Project
- 2011 Three Legged Dog Arts and Technology Center for the Mata Hari Project
RESIDENCIES
- Dame Joan Sutherland Fund 2011
- Schubert Award 2003
- 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