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Peter Carl Anderson | |
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| Born | March 30, 1950 Detroit, Michigan |
| Occupation | Playwright, actor, clown |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Spouse | Melody Anderson |
Peter Carl Anderson is a Canadian-American playwright, actor and clown born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950.
Life and work
[edit]After attending the Residential College at the University of Michigan and the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Peter hitch-hiked to British Columbia, Canada in 1977 to join the horse-drawn Caravan Stage Company. His extensive body of work as a playwright — over a dozen plays — for the Caravan Farm Theatre[1][2] has been lauded as "populist high comedy.”[3] His plays have been performed internationally and across Canada, including the National Arts Centre. As a performer he’s most known for his lead role in the Canadian production The Overcoat[4][5], which toured internationally and was filmed for CBC-TV, and as a co-creator and performer in the physical comedy The Number 14. He’s performed in Waiting for Godot on three occasions (in the roles of Vladimir and Lucky) and appeared at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre in The Overcoat [6], The Tosca Project, and Fatherville. He’s the recipient of six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for Vancouver theatre[7], a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Leo (BC) and Gemini (Canada) nominations for best performance in a film (The Overcoat), a NY Drama Desk nomination, as well as theatre nominations in Toronto and Calgary, and three Avery Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry[8] at the University of Michigan. He lives in Vancouver with playwright and mask-designer Melody Anderson.
Plays
[edit]The Coyotes, 1978
Horseplay (with Phil Savath), 1981
Law of the Land, 1982
Animal Farm (with Nick Hutchinson), 1985
El Crocodor (with company),1986
Rattle in the Dash, 1987
Bull By the Horns, 1987
Bones, 1988
The Shepherds' Play, 1989
Creation, 1991
Nativity,[9] 1991
The Number 14 (collective), 1992
Passion, 1993
Lysistrata, 1995
The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw (with John Millard), 1999
A Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, 2000
The Coyotes' Christmas, 2001
The Blue Horse, 2007
The Emperor's New Threads (with Melody Anderson), 2007
Don Quixote (with Colin Heath), 2010
Head Over Heels, 2014
Flee (with David Hudgins & Jonathon Young), 2015
Still Life, 2016
Monologues and Short Pieces
[edit]Air / Toast / Public Speaking / Who Do You Think You Are / Audition Piece, Brave New Works, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, 1988-1995
Torment, The Kiss Commissions, Performance Works, Vancouver, 1995
Picture Window, Playwrights Theatre Centre, New Play Festival, Vancouver, 1996
Stupid, commissioned by Corrine Koslo for “The Joy of Six”, Women in View, 1998
After/Math, opera libretto with Jennifer Butler, composer, 2011
Background Noise, song (Peggy Lee, composer), 2014
Other Published Work
[edit]Fiction & Poetry in Anon, Periodical Lunch, Cider Press Broadsides. 1972-77
Rattle in the Dash (Playwrights Canada Press: 1988)
Two monologues in The Perfect Piece (Playwrights Canada Press: 1990)
"Breaking All Four Walls" (Canadian Theatre Review #75, Fall 1993)
Monologue in Another Perfect Piece (Playwrights Canada Press: 1995)
“Play of the Land” article for the Vancouver Sun (August 28,1999)
Horseplay in Playing the Pacific Province: An Anthology of British Columbia Plays 1967-2000 (Playwrights Canada Press: 2001)
Monologue in Refractions:Solo (Playwrights Canada Press: 2014)
Links
[edit]Horse Drawn Magic
IMDB > Peter Anderson
Playwrights Guild of Canada > Peter Anderson
Doolee online database of playwrights and theatre plays> Peter Anderson
References
[edit]Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:Writers from Michigan
- ^ “Caravan Farm Theatre: Orchestrated Anarchy and the Creative Process,” Richard Bruce Kirkley, Canadian Theatre Review, Number 101, Winter 2000]
- ^ Katrina Dunn's 2016 Master of Arts thesis at the University of British Columbia, "Back-in-the-land: Space and Anglophone Canada's Professional Farm Theatres"
- ^ Caravan Farm Theatre > History
- ^ Review of The Overcoat in March 26, 2000 issue of Variety
- ^ Review of The Overcoat in the January 25, 2004 issue of Independent
- ^ American Conservatory Theater Presents Words on Plays: The Overcoat, 2005
- ^ Jessie Award lists of winners and nominations
- ^ The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp and Michael Barrett (The University of Michigan Press, 2006), p. 207].
- ^ NAC English Theatre Artistic Director Peter Hinton speaks with “Nativity" playwright Peter Anderson about the inspiration of the play, the process of the creation and how his career in theatre began> Episode 14 “nativity"