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Peter is a Welsh writer-director. He is currently developing feature Film "Clapham Trashbag" based on his international award winning play 5 Guys Chillin', with Ffilm Cymru/BFI.
Recently, he signed a film option agreement with Fulwell 73 for an (untitled) major motion picture.

Peter's new play  "A Tidy Boy" recently received R&D funding from the Welsh Arts Council and has been developed with Dirty Protest and the Gwyn Hall in Neath where it had it's first public reading, followed by readings at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff and The Jermyn St Theatre in London. 


Peter wrote and directed the multiple award winning 5 Guys Chillin' which was named one of "Ten Plays That Shaped Queer Theatre History" by the Evening Standard. It won the Best LGBT Production award at the Edinburgh Festival and was also the winner of the Brighton Fringe LGBTQ Award, and double award winner at the Dublin international Gay Theatre Festival and had a prestigious transfer to SoHo Theatre Off-Broadway. It has been produced in Australia (New Theatre, Sydney), Canada (Kensington Halls, Toronto) and France (Theatre Clavel, Paris) where it will have it's third run in September 2020. 

It is published by Oberon Books and can be purchased here: 
www.oberonbooks.com/five-guys-chillin.html



​As a director his production of "Signal Failure" played SoHo Playhouse for a 6 week Off-Broadway run. 
"A triumph"  Washington Square News. 

Other recent highlights include a new afternoon drama for BBC Radio 4 "Kindness", which was pick of the week in the Telegraph, Radio Times and The Stage and productions at The Arcola Theatre, Theatre 503, Assembly Theatre, Soho Theatre, Stratford Circus and numerous runs at The Kings Head Theatre. 

His production of Githa played York Theatre Royal and the St James Theatre in London's West End. 



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