Pete Danelski is a director, producer and creative facilitator, based in Washington, DC, making work all over. Pete creates theatre and performance through a variety of means and forms. Directing, associate and assisting credits include Folger Theatre, Theatre J, Gallery Players, Rorschach, The Performance Interface Lab, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Round House Theatre and DeSales University. Original projects include The Lower Depths Project, woolgatherings, as well as Every Hour/Chekhov in 8—developed with support of the Drama League of New York City. Pete co-adapted the first American adaptation of the Čapek brother’s Adam the Creator, which received a reading at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in 2019. Pete has developed work through a Kennedy Center Office Hours Residency. He is a 2019 Director-in-Residence with The Drama League of New York and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. Pete is also founder and Executive Producer of Pan Underground, a production company specializing in challenging ways theatre and performance is made and experienced. Pete’s writing has been published internationally in Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association. M.Phil., Trinity College Dublin.
MEMBER OF LINCOLN CENTER THEATER DIRECTORS LAB
SDCF 2019-2020 OBSERVERSHIP CLASS
TEDXBROADWAY 2020 YOUNG PROFESSIONALS COHORT
KENNEDY CENTER OFFICE HOURS RESIDENCY (2020)
2019 DRAMA LEAGUE RESIDENT DIRECTOR
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AMERICORPS ALUMNUS (DC)
BA, DESALES UNIVERSITY; M.PHIL, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN.
