Peter Lobdell ’68 is a Senior Resident Artist in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Amherst College. Lobdell has directed mime and movement for the Broadway and National Touring companies of Equus (a play written by Peter Shaffer). He has worked on ten productions of Equus, most recently at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and at the Alley Theatre in Housto. He coached movement for the Broadway company of The Elephant Man. He has directed for Circle Rep Lab and the Music Theatre Performing Group in New York. He has created and performed fifty theatre works presented at Dance Theatre Workshop, La Mama ETC, the Cubiculo, the Long Wharf Theatre, Pepsico’s Summerfare, the Repertory Theatre of St. Loius, Yale Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center among other venues.
How work was presented at the Eldinbirgh Festival Fringe, HOT in the Hague, Netherlands, the 9th Annual festival of Marionettes in Ascona, Switzerland, and at T2 Tokyo, Japan. He directed the mime for the Hartford Stage Company’s Our Town in the fall of 2007 and for the Alley Theatre in Houston in the fall of 2009. In 2013, he directed movement for the Elephant Man at the Ally Theatre.
Before coming to Amherst, Lobdell has taught movement and acting at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT. He was the director of the movement program at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York for twelve years. He has taught at the Michael Howard Studio in New York.
