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PETER COLLEY Playwright-Screenwriter
"The thinking man's playwright" Columbia Tribune, 2008 |
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Premiered in Calgary at The Vertigo Theatre. For more info: click here.
Now available in an Italian translation "Quando La Morte Chiama". For details click here. Peter's new play THE MAN IN THE DESERT about the life of Lawrence after his Arabia days was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Eugene O'Neill awards. THE MAN IN THE DESERT was performed to much acclaim in 2007 at Theatre In The Park, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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BREAKING NEWS!
It was produced in Munich, Germany at the famous Theater Blutenburg where it ran for many months in a German translation. Productions in the U.S., Ireland, Jamaica, South Africa and Australia, a National Tour of Britain, Nairobi, Kenya, and New Zealand. The world famous Cambridge Footlights (Monty Python, Beyond The Fringe, Borat) produced I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT. For details click here. I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT recently named as "Best of Calgary Theatre" by the Calgary Sun. "It’s no surprise I’ll Be Back Before Midnight has thrilled audiences in 27 countries and become the most produced Canadian play ever."
WHEN THE REAPER CALLS |
For more info: click here Peter's new musical play (Music & Lyrics by Christopher McGovern and Robert Creighton) on the life of James Cagney premiered at The Florida Stage in 2009. It is the winner of a "New American Play Award" and starred Robert Creighton as Cagney (from Broadway's LITTLE MERMAID). To read article in Playbill Magazine click here. ENTIRE RUN SOLD OUT!
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UPCOMING FILM PROJECTS
Peter is writing Endgame & Sweet Deceit for CinePartners, for more information click
here. HIGH FLIGHT is a WWII
action romance currently in development.
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I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT UK National Tour |
UK National Tour - including The Grand Theatre Swansea
shown at left (to see more
pictures of theatres click here) UK Tour venues include: Theatre Royal Winchester, The Capitol Theatre, Hull New Theatre, Theatre Royal Margate, The Darlington Civic, The Grand Theatre Swansea, The Lighthouse Theatre at Poole, Devonshire Park Eastbourne. Ian Dickens Productions, the largest UK producer of touring plays (300 productions), announced that the recent tour broke the company's box office records. |
I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT - at the Blyth Festival in its fourth revival at the theatre which premiered the play, the Vertigo Theatre in Calgary, the Spokane Civic Theatre and in the Nantucket Arts Festival. The Totem Pole Playhouse, Pennsylvania (one of only 11 professional Equity summer stock companies left in the US). Also Canberra Repertory Theatre, Australia. Danish translation as "TILBAGE FØR MIDNAT!". Arena Players ("Long Island's Oldest Professional Theatre"), Topeka Rep Theatre. WHEN THE REAPER CALLS: Kanata Theatre, Guelph Theatre.
"Peter Colley's play was the most memorable theatre experience of my life.
Made me realize what live theatre could be." Calgary Herald 2006
REVIEWS: I'LL BE BACK BEFORE
MIDNIGHT at The Coliseum Theatre, Nr. Manchester, England, where it received excellent notices (to see the
Coliseum reviews, poster, photos, click here).
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A new Danish translation at Jomfru Ane Teatret! To go to their website, click here. Also in 2010 a new Portugese translation called "Voltarei Antes Da Meia-Noite" by Teatroesfera, Lisbon, Portugal, a Dutch translation called "Voor Middernacht Ben Ik Terug!" and a German translation titled "Gänsehaut" which was a hit in 2007 in at Theater Blutenburg, Munich, Germany. |
Peter was interviewed twice in the New York-based "The Dramatist" magazine, and Writer's Digest named Peter's dialogue software among the "Best Software For Writers" and it has now been sold in 43 countries. In 2010 he organized the Los Angeles Dramaturgy Symposium with speakers from The Ahmanson and Taper Theatres, the La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and others. |
FOR MORE INFORMATION - NEWSPAPER REVIEWS, PRODUCTION HISTORY ETC - CLICK ON TITLES BELOW LEFT
PLAYS:
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(For full size headshot for programs etc. click here) Peter
Colley is an award-winning Canadian writer based in Los Angeles
and Toronto. His stage plays have been produced in 27 countries, 48
of the 50 states in the U.S. and every province in Canada. He was
nominated for the 2000 Humanitas Prize for screenwriting and was a
semi-finalist for the 2006 and 2007 Eugene O'Neill playwriting awards and
the winner of a 2008 New American Play Award from Theatre Communications
Group (TCG), 2009 nominee for 9 of New Zealand's NAPTA awards. His
new musical CAGNEY! has been nominated for 7 2010 Florida Carbonell Awards
and won the "Best New Work" Award (play or musical). Peter Colley is also the creator of an educational software program for writers called Great Dialogue Software™. This software has been sold in 43 countries. For more details, click here, or click on the logo below.
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THEATRE COMPANIES: For free perusal copies of Peter's plays email:
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For more information on Peter Colley's Great Dialogue Software™ click on the above logo. This popular educational software for writers has been sold in 43 countries.
THEATRES WHICH HAVE PERFORMED PETER'S PLAYS
INCLUDE:
Theatre Royal,
Windsor (England); The Grand Theatre, London (Ont.); The National Arts Centre, Ottawa;
Theatre Royal Winchester (England); The
Coliseum, Manchester (England); The Vancouver Playhouse; Theatre Royal, Margate
(England); The Salisbury Playhouse
(England); Theatre
New Brunswick; The Palace Theatre (England); The Tarragon, Toronto; The Saint Lawrence Centre, Toronto; The
City Theatre, Pittsburgh; Theatre-By-The-Sea, Portsmouth (US); The Octagon Theatre
(England); The American Heartland
Theater, Kansas City; The Capitol Theatre (England); The Blyth Festival
(Canada); The Charlottetown Festival (Canada); The Grand Theatre, Swansea
(Wales); The Neptune Theatre Halifax (Canada); Canberra Repertory Theatre (Australia), ETH Hamburg,
(Germany), The Wangherie Theatre (New Zealand), Theater Blutenburg, Munich, (Germany), Alliance Francaise (Kenya),
Salon Varietes (Spain), Queen's Park Theatre (Barbados), Teatroesfera, Lisbon, Portugal, and thousands more in 27
countries.
TO SEE PICTURES OF SOME OF THE THEATRES:
CLICK HERE
The Grand Theatre, London (Ont.), where Peter started his career as the Resident Playwright for 3 years.
THEATRE COMPANIES: For free perusal copies of Peter's plays email:
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Peter is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, The Dramatists Guild of America, and The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
