Playing by Ear

- Peter Brook is one of the world's best-known theatre directors.- His productions of Shakespeare's plays in the 50s and 60s are legendary, particularly his work for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, including Titus Andronicus (1955) with Laurence Olivier, King Lear (1962) with Paul Scofield, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970).- Brook has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, the Prix Italia, the Ibsen Award, and the Europe Theatre Prize.- Born in London, he has lived in France since the early 70s, where he established the International Centre for Theatre Research- Brook's many honors include Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1965), Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (France, 1995), Companion of Honour (1998), Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (France, 2013), and the President's Medal from the British Academy (2011). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983.