Peter Gill OBE (born 1939) is a Welsh theatre director and playwright. An actor from 1957–65, in 1964 he became Assistant Director at the Royal Court and Associate Director in 1970. In 1969, the Royal Court presented two of his own first plays, The Sleepers' Den and Over Gardens Out. He was appointed Artistic Director of Riverside Studios in 1976, and on 30th May 1976, his Nottingham/Edinburgh production of As You Like It marked our official opening. His first Riverside production was a staging of his own version of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, which opened to acclaim on 12th January 1978. Gill left Riverside Studios in 1980 to become an Associate Director at the National Theatre and founded the National Theatre Studio in 1984. He left the National Theatre in 1990. His plays include Cardiff East, The Look Across the Eyes, The York Realist and Something in the Air, which he rehearsed at the new Riverside Studios in 2022.
