Play-by-Play

NOVEMBER 14-16
The Greening of Bridget Kelly
Another Country Productions
Boston, MA

MARCH 10, 2012 
Raising David Walker
Baltimore Playwrights Festival
Baltimore, MD

Poster courtesy David Crosby/Centre Stage.

“Daring”… “Poetic”…“Passionate”… “Hilarious”… “Astute”… “Quirky”… “Touching”...

Those are some of the kind things people have said about my work. 

Hello there, welcome to my website! I've been writing plays for 11 years now. During that time, I've had 70-plus productions and staged readings of my plays in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia and Singapore. 

I've also been fortunate to win a number of awards and contests. In the U.S., my full-length drama, Guided Tour, garnered me the Stanley Drama Award and the Arthur W. Stone New Play Award. I'm a two-time winner of the New Play Festival of Centre Stage–South Carolina with Guided Tour and Identity Crisis. And I was first past the post with Orbiting Mars and I'm Not at Liberty To Say in the national new play contests of the Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre and Boston's Alarm Clock Theatre respectively. In 2009, I received a Playwriting Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. And I've been awarded a residency this summer (2012) at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. I plan to use my time there to work on a new play, The Draft, a multi-media piece about the impact of the draft during the Vietnam War. 

In Australia, Short+Sweet Theatre gave me an Artist Recognition award for my most popular short play, My Name is Art. The piece has been performed at Short+Sweet festivals in four Australian cities and in Singapore.  

On this site, you can download my short plays for free. (Click on the purchase tab if you decide to produce them.) You can also read the synopses and download free excerpts of my full-length plays. Please contact me if you'd like to see a complete script.

Happy browsing!

Cheers,

Peter

SUCCESS FOR IDENTITY CRISIS: Almost 900 people came to see the first (workshop) production of my new comedy, Identity Crisis, at Centre Stage in Greenville, South Carolina in January 2011. The play won the theater's 2010 New Play Festival and was an audience favorite. The festival's playwright-in-residence, Deborah Breevort, called Identity Crisis "daring, subversive and wickedly funny". Pictured: Thomas Azar (left, as Alan/David) and Deb Warren (Sylvia). Photo:Wofford Jones.