Peter Garino

Peter Garino is an actor, director, producer and playwright. He is a founding member of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago where he has served as artistic director since 2010. He recently directed and co-adapted (with James Richard Goeser) The Californian Incident for The Project. This past season, he appeared as Marcus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus and as Helicanus in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He also directed The Roaring Girl in May 2019. He adapted and directed The Project's holiday show this past season, A Selection of English Christmas Carols/A Baker Street Christmas Caper. Last season, he directed Much Ado About Nothing and played the Duke of Florence in Women Beware Women and Duke Senior and Duke Frederick in As You Like It. He also directed John Kishline's Dream Upon Avon and Rowan Williams' Shakeshafte for The Shakespeare Project. Previous appearances with The Project include Boyet/Anthony Dull in Love's Labour's Lost,
Sir Thomas Erpingham and the Duke of Burgundy in Henry V and Tackleton in Charles Dickens' The Cricket on the Hearth. Peter directed the Chicago premier of Tom Stoppard's Darkside (Incorporating The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd). Other appearances for The Project include the Bard in Cymbeline, Camillo in The Winter's Tale, the title role in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Lord LaFew in All's Well That Ends Well and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice. Other directing credits for The Shakespeare Project include: King John, Cardenio, The Revenger's Tragedy, King Lear, The Fair Maid of the West, The Reign of King Edward III, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Othello,The Tempest, Richard II, Measure For Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Pericles (1996 and 2008), The Taming of the Shrew, 2 Henry IV, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and his own adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets and songs, My Name Is Will, and The Rape of Lucrece. Other appearances with The Project include Friar Laurence/Lord Capulet in 50-Minute Romeo and Juliet, Agamemnon in Troilus & Cressida, George Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII, Lord Stanley in Richard III and many others. Peter has worked with the Steppenwolf and Organic Theatre
companies, the Body Politic, Pegasus Players and with the Oak Park Festival Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare Festival (three seasons). Peter attended the National Shakespeare Conservatory and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University, New York. He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, and SAG/AFTRA.