Peter Romano

Co-Artistic Director, Production Manager

Peter Romano is a Syrian-American Actor, Director and Teaching-Artist. Peter has taught acting and led workshops for companies such as the Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, and for Columbia University’s Theatre Department. As an Actor, he has worked internationally, touring Africa in Antigone in the World, directed by Tony award winner Gregory Mosher. Off-Broadway: Fucking A (Signature Theatre), Pericles (Target Margin), First Down (Noor), Othello, Midsummer (CSC) Candida (Gingold) Regional: Yasmina's Necklace (Premiere Stages) Terror (Miami New Drama). Film/TV: Wu-Tang An American Saga (FX) New Amsterdam (NBC) The Blacklist (NBC) The Week Of with Adam Sandler (Netflix). Directing credits include Antigone, Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Courage by Ana Caro de Mallen which toured schools and community spaces in Miami, and Romeo & Juliet (Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble). On film, he has directed adaptations of Julius Caesar and co-directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble. Peter is the creator of the web series The New Neighborhood. He is a Co-Artistic Director of Apocalyptic Artists Ensemble and currently a Theatre Arts Faculty member at Marymount Manhattan College. He holds a BFA from NYU: Tisch, and MFA Columbia University.