Peter Anderson (playwright)


Peter Anderson is a Canadian-American playwright.
Anderson studied at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre before moving to Canada in 1977. He has a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Michigan Residential College. He lives in Vancouver with his wife Melody Anderson.
Anderson is the recipient of six Jessie Richardson Awards, a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Leo and Gemini nominations for best performance, and a NY Drama Desk nomination.

Plays

The Coyotes, 1978
Horseplay, 1981
Law of the Land, 1982
Animal Farm, 1985
El Crocodor,1986
Rattle in the Dash, 1987
Bull By the Horns, 1987
Bones, 1988
The Shepherds' Play, 1989
Creation, 1991
Nativity, 1991
The Number 14, 1992
Passion, 1993
Lysistrata, 1995
The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw, 1999
A Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, 2000
The Coyotes' Christmas, 2001
The Blue Horse, 2007
The Emperor's New Threads, 2007
Don Quixote, 2010
Head Over Heels, 2014
Flee, 2015
Still Life, 2016

Monologues and Short Pieces

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, 2014

Other Published Work

Fiction & Poetry in Anon, Periodical Lunch, Cider Press Broadsides. 1972-77
Rattle in the Dash
Two monologues in The Perfect Piece
"Breaking All Four Walls"
Monologue in Another Perfect Piece
“Play of the Land” article for the Vancouver Sun
Horseplay in Playing the Pacific Province: An Anthology of British Columbia Plays 1967-2000
Monologue in Refractions:Solo