An award-winning actor and an emerging scholar, Grant Tyler Peterson (union name: Grant Tyler) is passionate about performing, academic research and teaching.
While training at the elite Ray Bolger Musical Theatre Program of the University of California, Los Angeles, Grant was awarded scholarships from both Carol Burnett and the Steve and Eddie Gorme Trust. While at UCLA, he maintained a career in television and regional theatre. 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 in the one-man show Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. Johnny was also nominated for best revival by Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and LA Weekly.
Academically, Grant was a UC Regent Scholar and completed his BA and MA in five years at the top of his class. 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.
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