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Performance Highlights

07.30.10
Christopher O'Riley
Caramoor International Music Festival
Spanish Courtyard- Katonah, NY

08.05.10
ETHEL
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, NY

08.28.10
Turtle Island Quartet
Waterstage - Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA

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Biography

Peter Meineck - Artistic Director

Training: University College London, Ancient World Studies

Peter founded Aquila in 1991 and has directed and/or produced over 45 productions in NY, London and internationally in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the ancient Stadium at Delphi, Lincoln Center and the White House, including Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, King Lear, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrranus and Ajax, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Aristophanes’ Wasps, Clouds, Frogs and Birds. Recent directorial projects include Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, Homer’s The Iliad and Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.

Peter has published several volumes of translations of Greek plays including Aeschylus’ Oresteia, which won the Lewis Galantiere Award for Literary Translation from the American Translators Association; Sophocles’ Theban Plays (with Paul Woodruff), Philoctetes and Ajax; and Aristophanes’ Clouds, Wasps & Birds. He has also written several literary adaptations for the stage including The Man Who Would Be King, Canterbury Tales and The Invisible Man, and is a regular contributor to Arion: A Journal of Humanities and The Classics.

Peter is director of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Aquila Theatre Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program. He has held teaching posts at Princeton and USC, was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, and is currently Clinical Associate Professor of and Ancient Studies at New York University.