Peter Glazer
Contact
prg@berkeley.edu15N Dwinelle Hall
Title:
Associate Professor
About:
Professor Glazer is a professional director and playwright whose plays, adaptations, collaborations and directing projects include?Woody Guthrie’s American Song?(Bay Area Drama Critics award, with Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations Off-Broadway and Joseph Jefferson Award winner in Chicago),?O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music?(Delaware Theater Co.),?Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate?(Marin Theater Co., Victory Gardens Theater),?Measure for Measure,?Seven Lears,?Murder of Crows, and?Marisol?(UC Berkeley),?Heart of Spain?and?Foe?(UC Berkeley and Northwestern University). He is presently co-writing a musical based on?The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness by Berkeley storyteller Joel ben Izzy, and co-writing a new play with Celtic harp virtuoso and storyteller Patrick Ball,?Come Dance With Me In Ireland:?A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country. His most recent project is an adaptation of Karen Shepard’s historical novel?The Celestials as a resident artist at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. He is a longtime member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and sits on the Governing Board of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
Education: Ph.D. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Research interests:
Directing
Adaptation
Performance Theory
20th Century American Theater
Commemorative Performance
Role:
Senate Faculty