BIOGRAPHY
Sabrina Peck
Sabrina Peck conceives and directs theater infused with movement and music. New plays Peck has directed include Blood Cherries by Dawn Saito, at Dance Theater Workshop and The New World Theater; The Antigone Project, by Karen Hartman, Lynn Nottage, Chiori Miyagawa and Caridad Svich, developed at The Public Theater; Blue Hyacinths by Stephanie Fleischmann at New Georges; Interstates (developed with Amy Brenneman) and several plays at New Dramatists (while a director in residence). Her choreography credits include: The Clean House, Lincoln Center Theater; Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Yale Rep; Henry VIII, New York Shakespeare Festival; The Good Person of New Haven, Long Wharf; Eleanor: A Love Story, Ford’s Theatre; and many productions for Cornerstone Theater Company, with which she remains an Associate Artist. Peck often creates productions in collaboration with diverse communities, including Common Green/Common Ground, with community gardeners in NYC; Odakle Ste with Bosnian Muslim refugees in Croatia; Speaking Our Streets, with former tobacco workers in Durham, N.C.; and Commodities, with commodities pit traders on Wall Street. Her work is detailed in the book Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States by Jan Cohen-Cruz. Peck has taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Duke University. She has a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University, where she created the CityStep program and returned as the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist.