peter sinn nachtrieb
About Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Peter, 6'6", was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Mill Valley (that's just north). After a generally positive experience in Montessori school early on, middle school was traumatic, and he still has a hard time forgiving some of the people who tormented him between 6th and 8th grades.
This trauma, in addition to (still) providing a vast quanity of material for writing, also propelled him to seek a creative outlet in which to vent his frustration. For Mr. Nachtrieb, this outlet was musical theater.
High School at Marin Academy represented a turn for Mr. Nachtrieb: Greater social acceptance, and performing in plays without songs. Further years at Marin Academy (plus a tour to Russia with Peace Child) only intensified the love for theater, and expanded his horizons to writing and directing.
Mr. Nachtrieb then headed off to Brown University to deepen his love for theater, his love for biology, and to realize that he was gay. In addition to acting, it was at Brown that Mr. Nachtrieb first developed the bug for playwriting (though the larva was planted early on by his rhymingly pun-brilliant father/lawyer/playwright). Inspired by such wonderful playwriting grad students such as Dennis Davis, Gina Gionfriddo and Madeline Olnek, Mr. Nachtrieb began penning his own work. The results included writing two solo shows in the incredible acting classes of Lowry Marshall, writing sketch comedy for Brown group Out of Bounds, and his first one act, Thread. During the same period, Mr. Nachtrieb interned for a Marine Biologist in Panama, watching fish spawn before dawn for 90 days straight in warm caribbean waters, and his hair bleached blond for a time. It is very possible that it was this trip where he acquired an amoeba which would then nestle in his liver for years causing him to become severely ill 1999-2000.
Anyhoo, Mr. Nachtrieb graduated with a degree in Theater and Biology, and moved back to the SF Bay Area, where he has resided ever since. In 2002, Mr. Nachtrieb entered the SF State MFA Playwriting program, and earned his MFA in Creative Writing in 2005. And he's written a lot of plays since then.
He wrote a play called Meaningless, and then a play called Colorado and then a play called Multiplex and then a play called Hunter Gatherers and then a play called boom and the a play called T.I.C. (Trenchcoat in Common) and then a play called BOB: A life in five acts and then a play called Litter: The True Story of the Framingham Dodecutuplets and then a play called The Totalitarians and he's working on a musical called Fall Springs and a play called A House Tour of the Infamous Porter Family Mansion with Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry. He's working on a couple more.
In addition, Mr. Nachtrieb dabbles in excercise, bike riding, visiting his mom in Marin, reading non-fiction, and scratching his head in a way that is not efficient, but it's how his father scratched his head, so...
He currently lives in the sunny Mission district of San Francisco with his wonderful more-than-a-boyfriend, Mark.
-Bio adapted from peternachtrieb.com
For even more info about our hilarious playwright, please visit his website!
Peter, 6'6", was born in San Francisco, and grew up in Mill Valley (that's just north). After a generally positive experience in Montessori school early on, middle school was traumatic, and he still has a hard time forgiving some of the people who tormented him between 6th and 8th grades.
This trauma, in addition to (still) providing a vast quanity of material for writing, also propelled him to seek a creative outlet in which to vent his frustration. For Mr. Nachtrieb, this outlet was musical theater.
High School at Marin Academy represented a turn for Mr. Nachtrieb: Greater social acceptance, and performing in plays without songs. Further years at Marin Academy (plus a tour to Russia with Peace Child) only intensified the love for theater, and expanded his horizons to writing and directing.
Mr. Nachtrieb then headed off to Brown University to deepen his love for theater, his love for biology, and to realize that he was gay. In addition to acting, it was at Brown that Mr. Nachtrieb first developed the bug for playwriting (though the larva was planted early on by his rhymingly pun-brilliant father/lawyer/playwright). Inspired by such wonderful playwriting grad students such as Dennis Davis, Gina Gionfriddo and Madeline Olnek, Mr. Nachtrieb began penning his own work. The results included writing two solo shows in the incredible acting classes of Lowry Marshall, writing sketch comedy for Brown group Out of Bounds, and his first one act, Thread. During the same period, Mr. Nachtrieb interned for a Marine Biologist in Panama, watching fish spawn before dawn for 90 days straight in warm caribbean waters, and his hair bleached blond for a time. It is very possible that it was this trip where he acquired an amoeba which would then nestle in his liver for years causing him to become severely ill 1999-2000.
Anyhoo, Mr. Nachtrieb graduated with a degree in Theater and Biology, and moved back to the SF Bay Area, where he has resided ever since. In 2002, Mr. Nachtrieb entered the SF State MFA Playwriting program, and earned his MFA in Creative Writing in 2005. And he's written a lot of plays since then.
He wrote a play called Meaningless, and then a play called Colorado and then a play called Multiplex and then a play called Hunter Gatherers and then a play called boom and the a play called T.I.C. (Trenchcoat in Common) and then a play called BOB: A life in five acts and then a play called Litter: The True Story of the Framingham Dodecutuplets and then a play called The Totalitarians and he's working on a musical called Fall Springs and a play called A House Tour of the Infamous Porter Family Mansion with Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry. He's working on a couple more.
In addition, Mr. Nachtrieb dabbles in excercise, bike riding, visiting his mom in Marin, reading non-fiction, and scratching his head in a way that is not efficient, but it's how his father scratched his head, so...
He currently lives in the sunny Mission district of San Francisco with his wonderful more-than-a-boyfriend, Mark.
-Bio adapted from peternachtrieb.com
For even more info about our hilarious playwright, please visit his website!