Peter Glazer

Peter Glazer is a playwright, director, author, and Emeritus Professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. His best-known work is Woody Guthrie's American Song, which premiered in 1988 and has had close to 100 productions. He also adapted J. M. Coetzee's novel Foe for the stage. At MASS MoCA he held artist residencies from 2016 to 2023 to develop a stage adaptation of Karen Shepard's novel The Celestials, which was given a reading at the museum in June 2023. The Celestials is set in 1870 North Adams, Massachusetts, and follows Chinese laborers who arrived as strikebreakers.