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 and awarded the Carol Burnett Scholarship, Grant maintained a career in television and regional theatre in southern California. LA and New York theatre critic Rob Kendt wrote, ". . . knocking Sondheim's Company out of the park . . . the lead, Grant Tyler, is among the most convincingly uncertain Bobbys I've seen . . . quite moving.” For his performance in the one-man show, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, Grant received the Backstage Garland Award for best performance and the show was nominated for best revival by LA Weekly and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.
Grant takes just as much pride in his students’ successes. He 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 Broadway.
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 at offoffonline.com.
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