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Peter translated
the Bertolt Brecht play "Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses",
produced at PRT in 2009. His original play "Relative
Madness" was produced in the PRT Co-op in 2003.
He translated
fifteen songs by the singer-songwriter Jacques Brel from the
original French, and directed and narrated a cabaret show of
those songs: "Jacques Brel: A Life in Song", which
won the 2008 Entertainment Today "Ticketholder Award"
for Best Cabaret Performance in Los Angeles (runner-up for
Best Translation).
Peter's play
"Struggling Truths" was produced in Los Angeles
at the Odyssey Theater, and was nominated for the Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle's "Best New Play of the Year"
award. It was subsequently produced in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
where it was nominated by the Detroit Free Press for "Best
Play of the Year". It was later produced in Chicago,
San Diego, and Sacramento, and there was an article about
the play in TCG's 'American Theater' magazine in February
of 2002.
Peter's translation
of Bertolt Brecht's "Baal" was produced in a five-month
sold-out run in New York City in 2000. "Baal"
was later produced in Los Angeles, by the Yale Cabaret Hollywood
Theater, directed by Peter.
A member of
the Story Analysts Union for over twenty-five years, Peter has
worked for every major Hollywood film studio, and has analyzed
well over 5,000 screenplays. He has been hired several
times as an Expert Witness, for litigation involving screenwriter
credits. He taught "Story Analysis for Film and
Television" at the American Film Institute for five years.
He is also a script consultant, reading and evaluating screenplays
for private clients. Website: www.PeterMellencamp.com
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