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Peter Meineck is clinical assistant professor of Classics and Ancient Studies where he teaches Greek literature, ancient drama and classical mythology. He has also held appointments at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina and is also a special lecturer at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He is originally from London and now resides in Katonah, New York. He studied in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London and worked extensively in London Theatre. He is also the Artistic Director of Aquila Theatre which he founded in 1991 to present innovative productions of classical drama and has since produced and/or directed 41 shows, wrote, translated or adapted 14, and designed lighting for 29 in New York, London, Holland, Germany, Greece, Scotland, Canada, Bermuda, and the United States in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the ancient Stadium at Delphi, Lincoln Center, and the White House. (www.aquilatheatre.com). He is also heavily involved in Aquila’s education program at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Aquila’s national education programs Theatre Breakthroughs and Workshop America.

Books published by Hackett include: Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, Aristophanes Vol. 1 (Clouds, Wasps and Birds), Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, Sophocles’ Theban Plays, and Sophocles: Four Plays (Philoctetes and Ajax) with Paul Woodruff, and translations published in The Electra Plays, The Trials of Socrates, and Readings in Classical Political Thought. His Oresteia was awarded the Louis Galantiere Award by the American Translators Association. Peter has recorded several series of lectures for Recorded Books and the Barnes & Noble Portable Professor Series (When Gods Walked The Earth, Classical Mythology: The Greeks, Classical Mythology; The Romans, Greek Drama). Peter also contributes regular articles on the performing arts and the Classics for the journal Arion. His 2009 piece “These Are Men Whose Minds The Dead Have Ravished: The Philoctetes Project” can be read at http://www.bu.edu/arion/17.1/Meineck.html. Meineck also works as a mythology consultant such as to Will Smith on the film I am Legend, National Geographic, Warner Bros. Disney and FuseTV. Professor Meineck is also the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Page and Stage program, a national collaboration between the theatre and the public library with the Urban Libraries Council, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies at the American Philological Association (www.pageandstage.org). He has received many prestigious grants for his work with Aquila including The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York State Council for the Humanities. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Charles Hayden Foundation and The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. He is also an EMS crew member of the Katonah and Bedford Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the proud father of Sofia Estrella and Marina Hippolyta.

Publications:
2009            The Electra Plays – Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2009)
2007            Sophocles: Four Plays – Ajax, Electra, Trachiniae, Phloctetes. With Paul Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2007)
2003            Sophocles: ‘Theban Plays’ with P. Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2003)
2001            Aristophanes’ Clouds in “The Trials of Socrates’ E. D. Reece (Ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2001)
2000            Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Aristophanes’ Clouds in Readings in Classical Political Thought
                   P. T. Steinberger (ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
2000            Aristophanes’ Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
2000            Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus With P. Woodruff,  Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
1998            Aeschylus’ Oresteia with intro by Helene Foley. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
1998            Aristophanes Volume 1. Wasps, Birds and Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
1990            Greek Theatre Production published by The LSTC Press (London 1990).