Peter DiMuro Bio

Peter DiMuro
Producing Artistic Director
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

PETER DiMURO has performed and collaborated with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange since 1993, and was named Producing Artistic Director in 2006. Since earning a BFA in Theatre from Drake University and an MFA from Connecticut College, Peter has performed in a range of dance works by contemporary masters from Ted Shawn to Liz Lerman, as an actor, in musical theater, and as Drosselmeier in the Boston Ballet's Nutcracker. Peter has created new works for his former Boston-based company, Peter DiMuro Performance Associates, as well as for Dance Umbrella/Boston, Boston Ballet II, Auras Theatre/Lithuania, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland and for the Something Different series at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Peter was named a 1995 Mayor of Boston/ProArts Public Service in the Arts Award recipient, a White House Millennial Artist in 2000, and has received grants from the National Performance Network, Artists' Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Peter has spoken on engaging communities in art-making at the National GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network) Conference, state arts councils in Oklahoma and New Hampshire and as a guest of the National Dance Academy (Mexico City) and Firkin Crane Institute (Cork, Ireland). Choreography for theater most recently includes work with Open Circle Theater production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Folger Theatre.