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Peter Meineck is Clinical Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies and specializes in the performance, reception and history of ancient drama and teaches Greek literature and mythology. He has also held appointments at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina and is also Special Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He is originally from London and now resides in New York. He has studied in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London and the University of Nottingham and worked extensively in London and New York 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 47 shows, wrote, translated or adapted 18, and designed lighting for 33 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.
Professor Meineck has published several volumes of translations of Greek drama and his translation of Aeschylus'
Oresteia was awarded the 2001/2 Louis Galantiere Award by the American Translators Association. He received the 2009 NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award and a 2009 Humanities Initiative Team Teaching Award and a 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award. He 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 article “These Are Men Whose Minds The Dead Have Ravished:
The Philoctetes Project” can be read at
http://www.bu.edu/arion/archive/volume-17/. Professor 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 and is also director of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program, a national collaboration between the theatre and the public library with the Urban Libraries Council, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, the American Philological Association and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. 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, The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, The Lucile Lortel Foundation and the New York Times Foundation. Professor Meineck has served with the Royal Marines, is an EMS member of the Katonah and Bedford Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the proud father of Sofia Estrella and Marina Hippolyta.
Professor Meineck is currently working on a book on opsis (the visual) in Greek drama.
