Peter Amster – Board Vice Chair

Peter Amster has directed and choreographed for theatre and opera for over 50 years.

In Chicago, he has shared his talents at the Goodman Theatre, Court Theatre, Northlight, Appletree, Route 66, Live Bait, the Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Chicago Symphony and Steppenwolf. Elsewhere in the US, he directed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, Peninsula Players, Weston Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Cleveland Play Huse, Syracuse Stage, Lagune Playhouse, and most recently, Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL. He taught theater, opera and performance studies at Northwestern University, Louisiana State University, CalArts, Columbia College, and Roosevelt University.

Peter has been on the board of the Beaver Island Performing Arts Alliance since January 2016 and currently serves as Vice President. He has been calling Beaver Island “my half-time home” for 32 years.