PETER BURKE

Founder/Director of Education

A graduate from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Burke studied musical theater, classical theater, experimental theater and dance in both New York and Amsterdam. He has appeared in several Off-Broadway productions including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and John Patrick Shanley’s, Fire Burning Rain. Burke spent the past four years teaching Film and Drama at the elite, Community School, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Additionally, he has taught Ballet, Jazz and Hip Hop for Footlight Dance Centre. To date, Peter's life work is the establishment, in collaboration with his esteemed colleagues, of The Spot,  a non profit professional theater/ acting company and performing arts conservatory, founded in 2015 in Sun Valley. Recent credits include: Next To Normal, Gabe, Angels in America, Prior Walter, Hand to God, Timmy, The Trestle at Popelick Creek, Dalton, The Pillowman, Ariel, Spring Awakening, Director.  Macbeth,  Macduff,  The Winter's Tale, Leontes, and Dido of Idaho, Director. Burke is also a committee member at St Thomas Playhouse and producer of Sun Valley Film Festival's Future Filmmakers' Forum. When not in Sun Valley, Peter can be found in Los Angeles pursuing his acting career in film and television.

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SPOT SHOWS

Set Designer                                FUN HOME '20

Choreographer                         CATS! '19

Set Designer + Props Master     AMERICAN HERO '19

Julius Caesar                            JULIUS CAESAR '19

Choreographer + Scenic           PIPPIN '19

Set Designer                               A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE '18

Orpheus + Set Designer            EURYDICE '18

Director + Set Designer             DIDO OF IDAHO '17

Macduff                                       MACBETH '17

Detective Ariel + Set Designer THE PILLOWMAN '17

Asst. Director                              35mm: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION '17

Set Designer                               A NEW BRAIN '17

Dalton Chance                            THE TRESTLE AT POPELICK CREEK '17

Timmy + Set Designer               HAND TO GOD '16

Director + Co-Set Designer      SPRING AWAKENING '16

Prior Walter                                 ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES '16

Frank N. Furter                           THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW LIVE '15, '16, '17

Set Designer                               THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE '15

Gabe                                            NEXT TO NORMAL '15