About the Show

Peter Cook will take his audience into a roller coaster of visual and
interactive performance with his humorsand stories that would left
them high raised hairs at the end of the ride.


About the Actor

Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement.

He has traveled extensively around the country and aboard with Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since 1986. Peter has appeared in Live from Off Center’s “Words on Mouth” (PBS) and “ United States of Poetry” (PBS) produced by Emmy winner Bob Holman. He has taught at Columbia College where he received the 1997 Excellence in Teaching award. In 1998, Peter set up a video production called PC Production and now based in Chicago.

Peter was featured at the National Storytelling festival in Jonesboro, Tenn., The Winter tales in Oklahoma City, Illinois Storytelling Festival, Hoosier Storytelling Festival, the Multi-Cultural Festival in Eugene, Ore, and 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.

Peter lives in Chicago and teaches in ASL-English Interpretation Department at Columbia College. He loves to tell stories to his son.