Grant Tyler

An award-winning actor and an emerging scholar, Grant Tyler Peterson (union name: Grant Tyler) is passionate about performing, academic research and teaching. 

Trained at the elite Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program at University of California, Los Angeles, Grant was awarded the Carol Burnett Scholarship and maintained a career in television and regional theatre in southern California.  New York and LA theatre critic Rob Kendt wrote about one of Grant's performances as, "knocking Sondheim's Company out of the park . . . the lead, Grant Tyler, is among the most convincingly uncertain Bobbys I've seen . . . quite moving.” Grant also received the BackstageWest Garland Award for best performance for his stint as Joe in the one-man show, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun.  The show was also nominated for best revival by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly.

Grant has taught at conservatory schools, at universities and privately, both in the US and Britain.  Many of his students have gone on to forge great performing careers in television and on stage.

Grant is currently conducting the first formal study of one of Britain’s longest running street theatre companies.  His research is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council of England and will culminate in a PhD degree from the University of London, Royal Holloway.  Grant’s previous writings have been published in Queer Masculinities: a Critical Reader in Education, the eJournal Platform and numerous New York theatre reviews through offoffonline.com.