Peter S. Cook

Peter S. Cook is an internationally respected Deaf performing artist whose works incorporate American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement. He has appeared in Live from Off Center’s “Words on Mouth” (PBS) and “United States of Poetry” (PBS) produced by Emmy winner poet Bob Holman. Peter was featured at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee, The Winter Tales in Oklahoma City, the Illinois Storytelling Festival, the Hoosier Storytelling Festival, the Multi-Cultural Festival in Eugene, Ore, the Tales of Graz in Graz, Austria, The Deaf Way II, and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Peter has worked with Deaf storytellers/poets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan. Peter was invited to the White House to join the National Book Festival in 2003. He lives in Chicago and teaches at Purdue University.