Peter Sellars

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Sellars
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	Sep 27, 1957(1957-09-27)
Age	67
Birthplace	Pittsburgh
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Virgo

Peter Sellars Biography

Peter Sellars is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on September 27, 1957 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Peter Sellars (born September 27 1957) is an American theatre director who is known for his innovative modern stagings of modern and classical play and opera. Sellars is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he is a teacher of Art as Social Action and the art of as Moral Action. He is widely recognized as one of the major actors in the world of opera and theatre in the past 50 years.

He was appointed director in 1984. was appointed director and director for the American National Theater in Washington, D.C. at the age of 26 which that he held until. While living in Washington, Sellars staged a production of The Count of Monte Cristo as a production of the play by James O’Neill, featuring Richard Thomas, Patti LuPone, Zakes Mokae and other actors. The production featured an original set design created by George Tsypin, with costumes designed by Dunya Ramicova as well as lighting designed by James F. Ingalls. Also, he directed performances of Idiot’s Delight by Robert Sherwood and Sophocles’s Ajax and the adaptation by the playwright Robert Auletta. He was the Artistic Director of both the Los Angeles Festivals of 1990 and 1993. showing works by talented artists such as famous late Iranian filmmaker Reza Abdoh and writer Frank Ambriz.

Sellars staged a series of Mozart’s operas Così fan tutte (set in a diner on Cape Cod), The Marriage of Figaro (set in a luxury apartment in New York City’s Trump Tower), and Don Giovanni (set in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, cast and costumed as a blaxploitation movie), in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director, Craig Smith. The productions were met with great critical acclaim, recorded in Austria by ORF in 1989, subsequently televised by PBS, and later revived at MC93 Bobigny (Paris) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona).

He directed an important production of The Persians at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, which articulated the play as a response to the Gulf War of 1990–91. In 1998, Sellars was awarded the Erasmus Prize for his work combining European and American cultural traditions in opera and theatre. In 2001 he was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal. In 2005 Sellars was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, given annually to “a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life.”

Sellars was director for The Boston Shakespeare Company for the 1983-84 season. His productions included an important Pericles, Prince of Tyre and a staged production of The Lighthouse by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies. In 1983, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.

Peter Sellars Net Worth

Peter Sellars is one of the richest Theatre Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Sellars 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

This was followed in this summer in 1980 with a staging Don Giovanni, cast, costumedand made as a blaxploitation movie that featured Don Giovanni partying almost-naked (underwear only) and shooting heroin. The production was presented under the auspices of the Monadnock Festival in Manchester, New Hampshire. Opera News hailed it “an act of artistic vandalism”. The winter of the year 1980 an adaptation of George Handel’s Orlando and the American Repertory Theatre, brought the actor to the national spotlight, perhaps due to the unique idea of setting it in space. Later on, Sellars was a student his studies in Japan, China, and India.

Sellars’s stage production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in the swimming pool at Harvard’s Adams House attracted the attention of the press to the entire campus, and so did the following techno-industrial production of King Lear, which included an Lincoln Continental on stage and ambient music by Robert Rutman’s U.S. Steel Cello Ensemble. When he was in his final year, he staged a performance that included Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector-General in The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His graduation from Harvard in the year 1980.

Sellars acted in very small (“bit”) roles in a very small number of TV programs, including Miami Vice (episode: “Tale of the Goat” (1985)) and The Equalizer (episode: “Last Call” (1988)).

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In early 2009, Sellars co-curated a contemporary art exhibition of work by Ethiopian artist Elias Simé at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, a kunsthalle in Santa Monica, California. His Othello, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago, showed in the Fall 2009 season at New York City’s Public Theater.

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What religion is Peter Sellars?

According to biographer Peter Evans, Sellers was fascinated, puzzled, and worried by religion from a young age, particularly Catholicism ; Roger Lewis believed that soon after entering Catholic school, Sellers “discovered he was a Jew—he was someone on the outside of the mysteries of faith”.

Who inherited from Lynne Frederick?

Ms Frederick died an alcoholic in 1994 and the fortune left by the star of the Goons and Pink Panther films has since been inherited by her daughter by her next-but-one husband after Sellers. Cassie Ungar, 25, who lives in Los Angeles, never met her benefactor.

Who did Peter Sellers leave his money to?

Instead, his multimillion-pound fortune went to his estranged fourth wife, actress Lynne Frederick. His kids received just £800 each. Sellers’ daughter Victoria from his second marriage says: “In the beginning of Lynne and my dad, and me meeting her, she was incredible.

How long did Britt Ekland married Peter Sellers?

James Bond actress Britt Ekland, 77, who was married to late film actor Peter Sellers for four years , has opened up about their marriage and claimed her ex-husband was a “manic depressive”. The Swedish actress married him 10 days after they met for the first time when she was 21-years-old.

Where was heavens above filmed?

Film Locations: Heavens Above Film Comedy: Heavens Above Old Prison, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.