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Peter B. Sonenstein

Playwright

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Artists' Award for Guilford Performing Arts Festival 2022

I am both honored and thrilled to have been selected to receive an Artists' Award from the Guilford Performing Arts Festival. I am very excited to spend the next twelve months preparing to present a staged reading of my new play, The End of Empire, at the festival next year.  I'll need some new red pens...

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about

ABOUT

Peter's plays have been seen in New York City at The New York Theatre Workshop (reading), The Westbeth Theatre Center, The John Montgomery Theatre, Expanded Arts, and the Circle in the Square Downtown. Peter's work has been produced in California at the Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival and the Riverside Arts Festival, and regionally at The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY, as well as The Source Theatre in Washington, DC. His work has also been seen extensively in Australia.

He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at The New School in NYC where he studied with Romulus Linnney, Janusz Glowacki, and Jack Gelber. He has also studied with Jack Temchin, Sam Schacht, and Jeffrey Sweet. Peter was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in playwriting at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he has been a Usual Suspect at the New York Theatre Workshop, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

news

News

Under the Wide and Starry Sky - Semifinalist at Gulfshore
May, 2023

My family drama, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, was a semifinalist this year in the New Works Festival at the Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples, FL.

Parker DePond and Arthur Bardole in Captivity, Iowa State University, March 2022
Cast & Crew of Captivity at Iowa State University, March 2022 including Morgan Reetz (Director), Carly Groninga (Betty), Dominick Ervelli (Iggy), Arthur Bardole (Fred), and Parker DePond (Joey)
Arthur Bardole, Parker DePond, and Dominick Ervelli in Captivity, Iowa State University, March 2022
ISU One-Act Festival 2022 Program Cover
ISU One-Act Festival 2022 Program Insert
Captivity, Iowa State University
March 2022

Many thanks to the cast and crew of this production as part of the 2022 One-Act Play Festival. The production included Morgan Reetz (Director), Carly Groninga (Betty), Dominick Ervelli (Iggy), Arthur Bardole (Fred), and Parker DePond (Joey).

Captivity, Illinois Wesleyan University
May, 2022

Congratulations to Lea Hulsey (Director) on her production at McPherson Beach this Spring!

contact

CONTACT

646.325.8109

psonenstein@gmail.com
Madison, CT

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