Peter Hackett | Department of Theater

Peter Hackett | Department of Theater
Peter Hackett
Professor
Appointments
Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities
Professor of Theater
Area of Expertise
American theater
contemporary drama
directing
acting
text analysis
Biography
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.
Education
B.A. Dartmouth College
M.F.A. University of California at San Diego
Taught Courses
Theater 31: Acting II
Theater 30: Acting I
Theater 54: Directing I
Theater 65: Drama in Performance
Publications
Director,
The Play That Goes Wrong,
Northern Stage, 2024
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
Director, Twelve Angry Men, Hungarian National Theater, Miskolc and the Pecs National Theater Festival (2000)
Contact
Timothy.P.Hackett@dartmouth.edu
646-3859
Hopkins Center, Room 109
HB 6204
Departments
Theater
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