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Peggy Trecker White

 Peggy Trecker White
Instructor of Theatre
School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Musical Theatre
American Repertory Theatre & Moscow Arts Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University
Master of Fine Arts, Acting

About Peggy

Peggy Trecker White is a founding member of Lean Ensemble Theater where she works as an actor, director and costume designer.

She most recently appeared as Bianca in The Taming; Sister Aloysius in Doubt; and Martha in Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: a Parody. Favorite roles with LET include Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five and Nora in A Doll's House, Part 2. Lean directing credits include The Humans, Bad Dates, and Constellations.

She has served as an Instructor of Theatre Arts for Interlochen Arts Academy in 2012 and 2018 and has been the Director of Intermediate Musical Theatre since 2013. As a part of the Interlochen Shakespeare Festival, Peggy has performed the roles of Gertrude in Hamlet, Marty in Circle Mirror Transformation, and Nora in A Doll's House, Part 2.

Internationally, Peggy was the Assistant Director of Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims at Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Italy, Theatre Lübeck, and Theatre Kiel in Germany. She has also appeared at Moscow Art Theatre, with Theatre Mitu in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and stages throughout Switzerland, and Italy.

Domestically, Peggy has appeared with American Repertory Theatre, Mitu 580, The Warehouse Theatre, Reprise! Broadway's Best, Michigan Opera Theatre, Ordway Music Theatre, NY Fringe Festival, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival among others.

Prior to graduate school, Peggy spent 18 months on the second Broadway National Tour of Miss Saigon. She is a member of Actors Equity Association.

B.F.A., Musical Theatre - University of Michigan

M.F.A., Acting - American Repertory Theatre & Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard University