Peter Sellars

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Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars at the 2011 Ojai Music Festival in Ojai, California
Born	(1957-09-27) September 27, 1957 (age 67) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Theatre director, professor

Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action. He has been described as a key figure of theatre and opera for the last 50 years.^[1]