PETER COLLEY Playwright-Screenwriter
AWARDS
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical.
OFF-BROADWAY ALLIANCE AWARDS Best New Musical
DRAMA DESK AWARDS Best Actor in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Best
Choreographer (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
ASTAIRE AWARDS Outstanding Female Dancer - Outstanding Male Dancer (Winner:
Robert Creighton) Outstanding Choreography in an Off-Broadway Show.
2010 New musical CAGNEY! winner Florida Carbonell Award "Best New Work".
2010 New musical CAGNEY! nominated for 7 Florida Carbonell Awards
including "Best New Work".
2009 Winner New American Play Award from Theatre Communications
Group (TCG)
funded by the Edgerton Foundation.
2008 Nominee for 9 New Zealand NAPTA Awards (Northern Area Performance Theatre Awards)
Winner: Best Play.
2008 Nominee for 2 Theatre Calgary Awards.
2007 Eugene O'Neill Awards semi-finalist.
2006 Eugene O'Neill Awards semi-finalist.
Winner of a 2001 Harold Greenburg
Screenwriting Award (The Movie Network) for STOLEN LIVES.
Nominee for the 2000 Humanitas Prize for his script "Cadmus & Europa",
for CBS based on the Greek myth. "The HUMANITAS Prize was created in
1974 to celebrate television programs which affirm the dignity of the human
person, explore the meaning of life, enlighten the use of human freedom and
reveal to each person our common humanity."
Winner of “International Cultural
Personality” Award (Italy) 1996 from the Ministère des Affaires
Étrangères et du Commerce International.
Inducted into the WHO'S WHO of Canada
1990.
One of 5 playwrights selected for CANADA
ON STAGE - celebrating Canada’s 125th anniversary.
Winner: 1991 Petro-Canada "Stage
One" Award for Drama.
Winner: 1993 Petro-Canada "Stage
One" Award for Drama
Resident Playwright (3 years) The Grand
Theatre (then Canada's largest regional theatre with 1200 seats).
5 Canada Council National Arts Awards
for Drama.
4 Ontario Arts Council Provincial
Awards for Drama.
Sole adjudicator: Canadian National
Playwriting Competition.
Writing Instructor for the Second City
Comedy Troupe and Theatre Ontario.
Resident Playwright: Actors Alley
Repertory Theatre, Los Angeles 1991-94.
Winner “Victor Laudorum” (two years
running): Royal Grammar School, Buckinghamshire, England (www.rgshw.com).
