Peter B. Sonenstein
Playwright
All plays are now available from my plays page or at the New Play Exchange.
UPDATES
The End of Empire is Semifinalist at Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024
May, 2024
The End of Empire was selected as a semifinalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, placing it in the top 20% of the 1,500 scripts submitted this year.
Reading of ten-minute A Show of Hands in Madison, CT, on October 15, 2023.
Preparing for another reading this Sunday, 10/15 as part of the Write On Festival at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, CT - Free and open to the public at 12:30pm!
Staged Multimedia Reading of The End of Empire at
GreenStage Guilford Festival
September 2023
See the photos and videos of our staged multimedia reading at the GreenStage Guilford Festvial, on Saturday, September 9, 2023.
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ABOUT
Peter's plays have been produced in New York City at The New York Theatre Workshop (reading), The Westbeth Theatre Center, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The John Montgomery Theatre, Expanded Arts, and the Circle in the Square Downtown.
Most recently, Peter's play The End of Empire was a semifinalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. The End of Empire was also the 2023 Artists Award for Drama at the Guilford Performing Arts Festival and received a multimedia staged reading at the festival in September, 2023.
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His play Under the Wide and Starry Sky was a quarter-finalist in the 2021 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition and a semifinalist at the 2022 Garry Marshall New Works Festival. Peter's work has also been performed in California at the Santa Cruz Chautauqua Festival and the Riverside Arts Festival, and regionally at The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY, and The Wooly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC.
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His play about baseball, For Season Ticket Holders Only, was adapted for Australian Rules Football as Reserved Seating Only and has toured extensively in Australia.
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Peter holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at The New School in NYC where he studied with Romulus Linney and Janusz Glowacki. He has been a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in playwriting at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a Usual Suspect at the New York Theatre Workshop, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
NEWS
The End of Empire - Semifinalist at Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference 2024
The End of Empire was selected as a semifinalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, placing it in the top 20% of the 1,500 scripts submitted this year.
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.
Artists' Award for Guilford Performing Arts Festival 2022
October, 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...
Under the Wide and Starry Sky - Semifinalist
Garry Marshall New Works Festival
June, 2022
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, was a semifinalist this year in the New Works Festival at the Garry Mashall Theatre in Burbank, CA.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
The End of Empire, Staged Reading, GreenStage Guilford
September, 2023
A multimedia staged reading of The End of Empire commissioned by GreenStage Guilford. Read more about the play and the fantastic cast and crew here.
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
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646.325.8109
psonenstein@gmail.com
Madison, CT
