Directing
Peter is a theatre director and educator originally from Ljubljana, Slovenia. His work has taken him around the world: in Ecuador, he directed the devised shows Miracles are Soft in the Jungle and The Waterfall of San Juan, which were inspired by co-creative work with the Indigenous Shuar community; in Colombia, he co-directed a salsa musical; in Hong Kong, the production of The Enchantment of the Beauty and the Beast won the Trinity College Distinction award; in Seoul, he directed the the workshop production Asul Asul / Nick of Time; in Amsterdam, the socially-engaged I Am Not Antigone premiered before going on a tour in Serbia.
His U.S. credits include The Blind (Schapiro Theater), The Weird Tree (Lerner Studio), Scrapland (The Wintercheck Factory), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fordham), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Clark), and Gilgamesh: A Musical Epic (The Connelly Theater).
His recent work has been produced in Slovenia, including Mrs. Dalloway at the Slovenian National Theatre, Cock at the Celje City Theatre, and The Lehman Trilogy at Mini Teater in Ljubljana.
Peter studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London (MA Text and Performance) and at Columbia University in New York City (MFA Theatre Directing), under the mentorship of Anne Bogart and Brian Kulick. At Columbia, he was the recipient of the Dean's and Harriman's fellowships. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Leeds in the U.K., exploring performative responses to climate change and generating transformative change through dialogue and inter-cultural co-creation.