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Peter Garino (Associate Artistic Director) is a founding member of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago and has contributed to over 40 theatrical readings as an actor and director since 1995. This season, he appeared as Creon in Jeff Christian's adaptation, In Medea Res and directed Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Last season, he directed Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and appeared as Duke Senior and Duke Frederick in As You Like It. Previously for The Shakespeare Project he has appeared as Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in The Constant Wife, Rev. Manders in Ghosts, multiple roles in Henry V, Boyet in Love’s Labour’s Lost, the title role in Jeff Christian’s adaptation of Faust, Leontes in A Winter’s Tale and Duncan in Macbeth. Peter has worked with the Steppenwolf and Organic Theatre companies and with the Oak Park Festival Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Previously he has directed readings of A Woman of No Importance, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, 2 Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s sonnets and songs, My Name Is Will, and The Rape of Lucrece. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University, New York. Peter is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, AFTRA and the Screen Actors Guild. He directed a staged reading of Lefties by Leigh Johnson at the Stage Left Theatre and co-produced and directed Johnson's Vietnam-era trilogy The Khe Sanh Bagman at the Center Theatre in Chicago.  | |
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