Peter Wing Healey, writer, director, choreographer, composer, and founder of The Mesopotamian Opera Company, Inc., danced professionally in New York City starting in 1976, with Daniel Lewis from the Josˇ Lim—n Dance Company, with Anna Sokolow, with Hannah Kahn, with Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians and with The Mark Morris Dance Group. He performed all over the U.S. and Europe, at Brooklyn Academy of Music, in India, Indonesia and New Zealand. He has a long association with Mark Morris both as a performer and as rehearsal director. He danced as a soloist in Morris's The Hard Nut at the Theatre Royale de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium, later filmed for PBS's Great Performances. He can still be seen on Ovation Television during the Battle of the Nutcrackers. He worked as rehearsal director on The White Oak Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov and has been balletmaster on the John Adams/Peter Sellars opera Nixon in China from its inception in 1987 at the Houston Grand Opera through restagings for the Los Angeles Opera, The Netherlands Opera, The Frankfurt Opera, The English National Opera and The Greek National Opera. In 1998 Mr. Morris created a solo, Greek to Me, for Mr. Wing Healey commissioned by American Dance Repertory Company, Bonnie Oda Homsey, Director, and performed at The Getty Center. Mr. Wing Healey's original plays, operas and operettas have been presented in New York at P.S. 122, The Judson Church, The Vineyard Theater, The Middle Collegiate Church, The R.A.P.P. Arts Center, H.E.R.E., The Greenwich House and Alice Tully Hall, and in Los Angeles at LATC, Highways,2100 Square Feet,The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock and The Whitmore-Lindley Theater Center. His writings include Jane Heir, The Norma, Sunset Salome, The Spell of Tradition Š Three Noh Plays for Benjamin Franklin, The Blur, Thyestes' Feast, The Tree, To Ur, Al and Kester. His screenplay Grand Central was given a reading in New York and Thyestes's Feast was published, in part, in the online journal Papotage after winning their writer's competition. His opera The Tree was awarded a $25,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation and a full production was mounted in 2006 through The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Jenny Krusoe, director and with significant additional support from the Department of Cultural Affairs of Los Angeles. He has received support for his work from American Opera Projects, TWEED Productions, The Gilman Foundation, The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, The Noah Wyle Foundation and The James Irvine Foundation, along with hundreds of individual donors.His play Thyestes' Feast was hailed by critics as "riveting", "interesting and potent theater" in 2008.
Mr. Wing Healey attended Haverford College, The Philadelphia Dance Academy and The Boston Conservatory of Music. He began his musical training at six on the piano. He went on to sing in choirs and to play trombone in the band. At 13 he was engaged to sing professionally with Christ Church Cathedral Choir in Vancouver, B.C. in preparation for their tour to England sponsored by the Royal School of Church Music. After the tour he was moved to western Massachusetts where he continued singing in the choral program going on to a leading role (Barnaba) in a production of La Gioconda. He continued his keyboard studies with Dorothy Guion, a pupil of Dame Myra Hess. At 18, moved again, he sang and acted leading roles at Marple-Newtown High School. He studied baroque keyboard with Agi Jambor, Hungarian concert pianist and head of the Music Department at Bryn Mawr College. In college he turned to dance. In New York he studied with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, David Howard, Jennifer Muller, and Sara Sugihara, among others. He studied classical ballet with Janet Panetta, soloist at American Ballet Theater, protege of Margaret Craske, herself a student of Enrico Cecchetti. He studied Middle Eastern dance and drumming for ten years with Sufi Master, Adnan Sarhan.