About

After forty years in the classroom, Peter A. Davis retired as a theatre professor having served on the faculties at the University of Oregon, Tufts University, and for twenty-seven years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was Chair of Theatre Studies and the MA/PhD Program, as well as Director of Graduate Studies. Now a resident of California, he continues working as an actor, writer, historian, and dramaturg. In Chicago, Peter performed with Defiant Theatre (A Clockwork Orange), Strawdog (Three Sisters), Steppenwolf (August: Osage County and The Unmentionables), in addition to his work as a core ensemble member with the award-winning Remy Bumppo Theatre Company (Arcadia, Aren’t We All, The Best Man, The Philadelphia Story, The Voysey Inheritance, You Never Can Tell, Both Your Houses, Pygmalion, Skin of Our Teeth, and Puff: Believe It or Not). He also served as a dramaturg at Steppenwolf (Sonia Flew), Writer’s Theatre (The Turn of the Screw) and is currently the resident dramaturg at Remy Bumppo.