Peter J Kuo, a theatre director, producer, writer, and educator focusing on raising the visibility of marginalized communities, is the Granada Artist-in-Residence for winter 2025. He will direct Small Mouth Sounds.

Born and raised in Southern California, Kuo currently resides in San Francisco where he is the Director of the Conservatory at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). Named as one of TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color in the Round 3 cohort, he is also a co-founder of Artists at Play, an Asian American theatre collective that produces Los Angeles premieres of works for Asian Americans. For Artists at Play, he directed their inaugural production of Lauren Yee’s Ching Chong Chinaman (Backstage Critic’s Pick), and Michael Golamco’s Cowboy Versus Samurai; as well as readings of Boni Alvarez’s Marabella, Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman, and Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends. Other favorite directing credits include Christopher Chen’s MUTT: Let’s All Talk About Race!, Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days, Elizabeth Wong’s Letters to a Student Revolutionary, Jackie Sibblies-Drury’s We Are Proud to Present…, and Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World. As a director he has worked nationally; in multiple states on both coasts and through the Midwest.

Kuo holds an A.A. in theatre with high honors from Fullerton College and a B.A. in drama from UC Irvine; where he was admitted into the Directing Honors program and received the Chancellor’s Award for his work founding Diversity University Irvine, a theatre company where he produced seven shows in two years, four which he directed. He holds an M.F.A. in directing from The New School, College of Performance Arts, School of Drama. Previously he was a faculty member at HB Studio where he taught “Acting Beyond Marginalization” an acting class specifically for actors of color. He also directed and taught at The New School, The Atlantic Acting Conservatory, and Redhouse Art Center. He was a reviewer of Routledge published “Stages of Reckoning: Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training.”