# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-sellars
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:17.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-sellars"
name: "Peter Sellars"
slug: "peter-sellars"
description: "Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action. He has been described as a key figure of theatre and opera for the last 50 years."
tagline: "American theatre director (born 1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterSellarsOjai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
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birthDate: "1957-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump