CHARLIE PETERS
DIRECTOR

Charlie Peters (ze/hir/hirs) is a theatre and opera director, actor, lighting designer, playwright, dramaturge, poet, arts educator, and clown based on Treaty 6 Territory. Hir artistic work has been seen on stages (and in parks, fields, school gyms, living rooms, town squares, art galleries, and swimming pools) across Canada and in Europe. Ze holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan, an MFA in Theatre Practice and an MA in Gender and Social Justice Studies from the University of Alberta, and has trained extensively at the Manitoulin Conservatory for Creation and Performance. Ze is the recipient of Saskatoon and Area Theatre Awards for Outstanding Emerging Artist (2013) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Two Corpses Go Dancing, 2015), having been nominated for Outstanding Direction (Diana Son’s Stop Kiss, 2014) and Outstanding Original Script/Excellence in New work (Many Fires, 2019; Oblong and Oboe Stir The Pot, 2024). Charlie is Founding Director of Embrace Theatre and Folk Trail and Live Theatre Coordinator of the Silver Skate Festival where hir projects have been nominated for multiple Sterling Awards. Hir scholarly work has been published in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Comedy Studies, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Dramaturgy and History: Staging the Archive (Routledge), and on HowlRound. Hir artistic work is anthologized in This Is Beyond: A Time Capsule of Queer Experience (Playwrights Canada Press) and Poetry All Over The Floor (Tonight It’s Poetry Press). www.charliepeters.ca