Aysan Celik and Danny Scheie in The Making of a Great Moment

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• Oh hey. I'm Peter. I'm a writer. I've written a bunch of plays and also write narrative game scripts, TV/Film scripts, speeches, toasts, roasts, sketches, clever copy, emails, blogs, and more! I am also a playwriting instructor and writing consultant. Slide in to my DMs if you want to produce something I wrote or hire me to write something just for you! (Email is the same as DM, right?)
  
  
• A NEW AUDIO PLAY! The lovely folks at Playing on Air commissioned me to write a short comedic audio play. It's called Crisis Planning. It's about milestone birthdays and the stress they can bring! April Matthis and Andrew Garman star. Directed by Jason Eagan!
  
  
• GREAT MOMENTS NOW PUBLISHED! My play, The Making of a Great Moment is now published by Dramatists Play Service! You can buy a copy or license a production on their site.
  
  
• I'm working on a new play called TIM'S LAST WORDS. It's about grief and homosexuals and seafood.
  
  
• I've also been developing a new play called THE OVERBOOKED HOTEL ROOM. It's, um, it's about an overbooked hotel room.
  
  
• Niko Tsakalakos and I wrote a musical about natural disasters and willful ignorance to human driven climate change. It's called FALL SPRINGS. It had its World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company in August 2019, directed by our longtime collaborator (now Tony Nominated) Stephen Brackett! We're working on it some more.
  
  
• I was the Mellon Playwright in Residence at the Z Space from 2013-2018. It's all over for me now. But I talked to Artistic Director Lisa Steindler about it in this article. And I talked to Kirsten Greenidge about it in this article. You can read more about the whole residency thing here.
  
  
• With HowlRound at Arts Emerson in Boston, I hosted a meeting about Comedy in American Theatre entitled I'M TIRED OF ALL THIS DRAMA. Read my recap here.
  
  
• The fine folks at Dramatists Play Service have published my plays The Totalitarians, boom, BOB, Colorado, Hunter Gatherers, and T.I.C.
  
  
• This is a nice OLD article about me in TCG's American Theatre Magazine.
  
  
• I hand-coded this website over 15 years ago. That's why it looks like this.
  
  
• Read more about my plays
  
  
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