A transplanted New Englander, Peter studied acting at Boston University and North Carolina School of The Arts before moving to the Northwest in 1985 to finish his undergraduate work at Oregon State University. He has been involved in theater since age 9 and continues to stay connected to the theatre community here in Portland. He is a co-founder of Outside The Box Productions, a small, edgy local theatre production company, and he has been seen on stage in many local productions including Mt. Hood Rep's own "Our Town" and "Inherit The Wind". Other Credits include Jody in "Lonely Planet", Ryder in "The Knacker's Yard", Donny in "American Buffalo" and, yes, Allen in "Play It Again, Sam". Peter is a pilot instructor for a northwest-based airline and lives on the eastside with his wife, Deborah and their animals. When not involved with a production or working Peter can be found in one of three places: scuba diving, flying his airplane or asleep on the couch!

Why Woody Allen? "It's simple really. I love Woody Allen's humor. Woody has always drawn from the absurdity of everyday things that happen to him or that he sees. Typically, he'll then exaggerate it.

"I recall a scene from Annie Hall when his character has gone to Annie's parents house for dinner and the grandmother is at the table. We see a her shoot a glance across the table at Woody and in the next shot we see what she sees... Woody as a Hasidic Jew with the beard, the curls, the hat and of course the famous glasses. Naturally, he's not dressed that way, but this is how Grandma sees the jewish boy that her grand daughter has brought home for dinner.

"I love reading Woody Allen too because his humor challenges us intellectually. He's not affraid to use a full range of motion with respect to vocabulary. Well, and then there's neuroses. How can you not laugh at Woody Allen dressed as a single sperm [in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)] waiting to be launched on the single-most important mission of any sperm's life and he's fretting about all of the things that can go wrong "out there".

In spite of the foibles and indescretions of his personal life, Allen remains an American artistic treasure who gives voice to many of the neuroses we all secretly feel. At the core, that is why we find him so funny, because we can relate to it... all of it."