Professor Peter Snow

Research

He read Philosophy, Psychology and began Medicine at Oxford. He has undertaken theatre study in Berlin, the USSR and Japan, as well as post-graduate study at the Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney.

His PhD is on theories of body in performance practice. Recent research projects include Theatre Performs Culture, an ARC funded three-year study in conjunction with Playbox Theatre and Theatreworks, on the relations between theatre artists and audiences.

Creative work

He has been a theatre-maker, director and performer for nearly 20 years, with a background in both text-based and new work. He has helped to create over 40 professional productions in Australia and overseas. Two recent projects include:

• co-writing and directing a version of Ovid's Metamorphoses for a tour of Queensland, the Torres Strait and Germany; and
• making a new work on dying, Fading Like a Flower, which played in Melbourne and Amsterdam.

He is an ongoing participant in the Body Weather project Triple Alice in the Central Desert of Australia.

Publications

Peter has published articles on embodiment, artist-audience relations and the methodologies of making performance.