Dr. Peter Lubrecht has a PhD in Educational Theater from New York University and a master’s degree in English and Drama Theory from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. An avid researcher wit...ver maisDr. Peter Lubrecht has a PhD in Educational Theater from New York University and a master’s degree in English and Drama Theory from NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. An avid researcher with an interest in historical theater, Lubrecht has been lecturing locally on the Civil War and Nineteenth Century American Theatre.
Peter is originally from New York City, where he appeared in and was a part of an experimental theater program conducted by the New York Public Schools, under whose aegis he studied acting with Harold Jackson of the Harlem Renaissance. He was on NPR as a guest at age nine.
Peter is an adjunct professor of English, Speech, and Theater at Berkeley College; however, he also was with Lehman University Graduate School and Lincoln Center (Performing Arts in the English Classroom) Jersey City University, Bergen, Morris, and Passaic Community Colleges.
He has written two history books: The New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War: The Hussars of the Union Army (History Press, 2011) and Germans in New Jersey: A History (History Press, 2013).ver menos