Peter Vitale

Peter is a multidisciplinary theater artist and has worked professionally for over twenty-five years as an actor, composer, musician, and music director.  He is currently the music director at Ten Thousand Things Theater in Minneapolis where he has composed original scores and over forty songs for TTT shows including Measure For Measure, As You Like It, Doubt, Life Is A Dream, Othello, Twelfth Night, Eurydice, Red Noses, The Merchant of Venice, The Good Person of Szechwan, Cyrano de Bergerac, Blood Wedding, The Winter’s Tale and The Three Lives of Lucy Cabrol. Other sound/music credits include The Public Theater Mobile Unit’s (NY) production of Measure For Measure. As a singer and actor, Peter has appeared on many Twin Cities’ stages including the Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Ten Thousand Things Theater, Park Square Theater, Theater Latte Da, Minnesota Jewish Theater, Minnesota Opera, and the Minnesota Orchestra.

In 2009, Peter received a grant from the American Composers Forum for his work on Raskol, a new adaptation of Crime and Punishment by Kira Obolensky.

As an instrumentalist, Peter is continually exploring new techniques and instruments to add to his repertoire. He currently plays piano, clarinet, saxophone, recorder, flute, harmonica, accordion, harp and a wide variety of percussion instruments. He’s also been called upon to invent a number of original instruments and effects for TTT productions.

Peter received a Bachelors Degree in Music from Duke University in 1986 where he studied both piano and voice. In 1993 he earned a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from the School of Music at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In 1987, he was the recipient of a Rotary International Foundation scholarship which allowed him to spend a postgraduate year studying orchestration, composition, ethnomusicology and harp at the University of North Wales, Gwynedd, UK.


In 1989, he received funding from the Duke University Institute of the Arts and Manbites Dog Theater to co-produce a staged reading of his original script entitled, Such A Little While based on the music, life and writings of American composer, Marc Blitzstein. In 1999, and again in 2002, he received support from the Fletcher Foundation to become a visiting guest artist of the theater department at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC

Peter is a member of Actors Equity Association and the American Composers Forum.