About Peter Menefee
Peter Menefee was a painter and dancer.
Pete Menefee is an American dancer, performer, and costume- and stage-designer who has worked in Hollywood since the 1960s. He has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning three times, the most recent being in 2002 in the "Outstanding Costumes for a Variety or Music Program" for the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The other two were in 1980 and 1988. He was nominated in 1987.
He was educated at San Diego State University and at the Chouinard Art Institute. He began taking dancing lessons at age ten. Although he did not like ballet, it was a requirement for the San Diego Civic Light Opera, which he had joined. He studied under Gladys Bowen for around six years.
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