A Conversation with Actor Peter Gerety
Join us on November 16 for an insightful discussion with American actor Peter Gerety. He is best known as Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire.
Admission is free!
AMT Talks is a salon series featuring unique perspectives from people across the broad spectrum of the arts, humanities, and many other professions.
Peter Gerety's film credits include Michael Mann's Public Enemies, Robert Zemeckis' Flight, Clint Eastwood's Changeling, George Clooney's Leatherheads, Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War, Spike Lee's Inside Man, the independent feature Things That Hang from Trees, Syriana, War of the Worlds, K-Pax, People I Know, Magic Hour, Montana, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Mrs. Winterbourne, Surviving Picasso, Ed Burn's Ash Wednesday, A Most Violent Year, Cymbeline, Get the Gringo, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, God's Pocket, The Sea Is All I Know, Hollywood Ending, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, A Change in the Air and Working Man.
Television credits include Showtime's Ray Donovan, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, Brothers And Sisters, the Tom Fontana/WB series The Bedford Diaries, HBO's The Wire, Homicide, Law and Order, Ed, Ed Burns' Public Morals, Kidnapped, Daredevil, Madam Secretary, The Black Donnelly's, Elementary, The Good Wife, Brotherhood, The House of Mirth, Central Park West, Third Watch, The Return to Lonesome Dove and the PBS Mini-Series Mercy Street. Theatre credits include the Broadway productions of the late Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy opposite Tom Hanks and Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore which transferred after a successful run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company, the Broadway production of Never Gonna Dance, Susan Lori Park's Fucking A, and Henry V at N.Y's Shakespeare in the Park. Peter worked on stage for over 30 years with the legendary Trinity Rep of Providence, R.., performing in over 100 productions.
He has also performed with the Seattle Rep., the Dallas Theater Center, ART in Cambridge, the Huntington in Boston, and in Edinburgh, Scotland, Madrid, Spain, Bombay, Calcutta, and Damascus, Syria. Peter has been in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including playing Rodrigo to James Earl Jones' Othello, and finally, is an accomplished director, primarily with the Dallas Theater Center and Trinitv Rep.