Peter Gould
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Educator, Writer, Clown
Peter Gould is the founder of "Get Thee to the Funnery," a Shakespeare enrichment program in the fabled Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. A teacher at Brandeis, Peter is also a long-time director at the New England Youth Theatre. His Shakespeare work with young people has won him three major expansion grants from the Vermont Community Foundation, and his young adult novel WRITE NAKED was awarded the 2009 National Green Earth Book Award, which encourages environmental stewardship in young readers.