Lisa Peterson

Lisa Peterson

Director, Hamlet

In two seasons at OSF: Henry IV, Part Two; Othello

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: An Iliad, written with Denis O’Hare; Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Slavs!, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, The Waves (New York Theatre Workshop); Hamlet in Bed (Rattlesnake Playwrights Theater); King Liz (Second Stage Theatre); To the Bone (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Poor Itch (The Public Theater); Shipwrecked, The Model Apartment (Primary Stages); The Fourth Sister (Vineyard Theatre); Collected Stories (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Major Barbara, Oedipus, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Guthrie Theater); King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labor’s Lost (California Shakespeare Theater); Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Courage (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Chavez Ravine, Water & Power, Electricidad (Center Theatre Group). World premieres at South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre and many others. 

International: An Iliad, The Philanderer (Shaw Festival, Canada). 

Other credits: Mark Taper Forum, resident director, 1995–2005; La Jolla Playhouse, associate director, 1992–1995. Awards: Two Obie Awards, Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk nominations, Joe A. Callaway nomination, NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship.