A lyricist, composer, and book writer, Peter recently was honored to receive the 2007 Fred Ebb Award as well as 2006 Drama Desk nominations for his score and orchestrations of The Pursuit of Persephone. He also has received $10,000 grants from the ASCAP Foundation (The 2003 Richard Rodgers’ New Horizons Award) and from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation (2002), in recognition of his excellence as an emerging musical theater writer. In 2000, he completed a M.F.A. degree in Musical Theater Writing at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, and was subsequently selected as a Dramatist’s Guild Fellow for 2000-2001. Originally from Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Pete graduated from Princeton University in 1995 with a degree in English/Dramatic Literature. His first musical was The Taxi Cabaret, originally produced in the Spring of 2000 at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre and published in 2004 by Samuel French, Inc. In 2001, Pete co-authored The Flood, a new musical based on the true story of the 1993 Mississippi River floods, which was selected for the prestigious ASCAP Workshop. In 2002, Pete completed Illyria, based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which went on to further production and a cast recording at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in 2004. In 2005 he penned The Pursuit of Persephone, a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s college romance with Ginevra King. He has also created The Rockae (2007), a hard rock musical based on Euripedes’ classic The Bacchae; Honor (2008), a samurai musical based on Shakespeare’s As You Like It; The Alchemists, a musical romance set in Regency England (2003); and Lonely Rhymes, a collection of contemporary comic songs (2004). During his Princeton career, Peter wrote more than 35 songs for the Princeton Triangle Club, for which he now serves on the Board of Trustees and as a writing workshop coordinator. A founding member of Prospect, Pete has also music directed many of the company’s endeavors, as well as composed original music for The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. www.pcmills.com