Name: Kris W. Peterson

Title: Assistant Professor

Division: Theater

Office Hours: F-362 HFAC, Thursdays 9am – 11am online

Email: kris.w.peterson@byu.edu

Phone: 801-422-4830

Education
BA, Theatre and Media Arts Education, Brigham Young University, 2002
MFA Theatre Practice: Staging Shakespeare, University of Exeter, 2014

Profile
Kris is an award-winning actor/director/educator. She completed an internship with the Tony-Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival and has completed acting and directing coursework at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London where she studied under Philip Bird, Glynn Macdonald, and Yvonne Morley.  Her recent credits include:  Kill Room (Ripley), All American Cannibal Cookoff (Monica), Hamlet (Gertrude), King Lear, (Lear), Dancing at Lughnasa (Maggie), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Sheila), Macbeth (Director), and Romeo and Juliet (Romeo).  She is the co-founder of Happy Accidents Theatre Company and Dark Lady Shakespeare Company.

Courses Taught
TMA 276
TMA 336
TMA 436
TMA 315R (Acting Pedagogy)
TMA 476/496R
TMA 536
TMA 330R
TMA 220R
TMA 420R
TMA 455

Curriculum Vitae: Kris Jennings