Peter Meineck

Peter Meineck (born 1967) is Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University. He is also the founder and humanities program director of Aquila Theatre and has held appointments at Princeton University and USC.[1]

Biography

Peter Meineck was born in Melton Mowbray, England and grew up in New Malden. His earned a BA (Hons) in Ancient World Studies in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London and his PhD in Classics at the University of Nottingham. He worked extensively in London theatre and founded Aquila Theatre in 1991.[2] His stated aim with Aquila is to bring the greatest works to the greatest number and he has developed a sixty-seventy city American tour that brings classical drama to communities of all sizes across the USA.[3] He also developed regular seasons Off Broadway in New York City and has produced classical drama at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Ancient Stadium at Delphi, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Bush and Obama White House. He has directed and/or produced over fifty stage productions.

Meineck translated the opera libretto for Cherubini’s Medee performed at Carnegie Hall and wrote and directed a new stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch-22.[4] He was a consultant on the film I Am Legend. Directing projects include Aquila Theatre's Catch-22 He is currently Professor of Classics In the Modern World at New York University and specializes in Greek drama and literature, cognitive theory applied to antiquity and classical performance. He has also held teaching posts at Princeton University, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and USC. He is director of Aquila Theatre's public programming and has implemented arts and humanities programs aimed at veteran and civilian dialogues, At Risk students in Harlem and The Bronx and underserved communities via public libraries. He is also Honorary Professor in Humanities at the University of Nottingham and an affiliated faculty member in Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, the University of California San Diego, the Onassis Foundation, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Personal life

Meineck married ballerina Desiree Sanchez in 2004.[5] He currently serves as the Rescue Captain at the Bedford Fire Department in New York and is also an Emergency Medical Technician.

Awards

  • 1999: USC Honors College Mortar Board Teaching Award
  • 2000: Louis Galantiere Award for Oresteia, American Translators Association
  • 2009: New York University Arts and Science Golden Dozen Teaching Award
  • 2010: National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award.
  • 2011: American Philological Association Award for Outreach.

Published works

References

  1. ↑ "NYU > Classics > Peter Meineck".
  2. ↑ Hedges, Chris (1999-12-01). "Stealing Fire From Olympus Staging the Greeks With High Voltage and Modern Energy". The New York Times.
  3. ↑ Hedges, Chris (2001-04-01). "Troupers on a Never-Ending Tour". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Phythyon Jr., John. R. (2008-03-02). "'Catch-22' a nearly perfect adaptation". The Lawrence Journal-World & News.
  5. ↑ Koppel, Lily (2004-11-14). "Vows: Desiree Sanchez and Peter Meineck". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Nelson, Max (2000-08-03). "Peter Meineck (trans.), Aristophanes' Clouds (with an introduction by Ian C. Storey)". Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  7. ↑ Blondell, Ruby (2004-07-65). "Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff, Sophocles: The Theban Plays. Translated, with Introduction and Notes". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Check date values in: |date= (help)
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