Director Peter Baker
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
Born Yesterday,
Our Town and Inherit
The Wind. Peter recently finished a production of Romulus Linney's
2 at Portland's Profile Theatre Project.
Other Credits include Jody in Lonely Planet, Ryder in The
Knacker's Yard, Donny in American Buffalo and 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!
About The Playwright
Mark Medoff was born in Mt. Carmel, Illinois in 1940. His father,
Lawrence, was a physician, and his mother, Thelma, a psychologist. He earned a
B.A. in 1962 from the University of Miami, and an M.A. in English from Stanford
in 1966.
In 1966 he became an Eglish professor at New Mexico State University
in Las Cruces. Medoff took up playwriting and had his first play, When You Comin'
Back, Red Ryder?, produced Off-Broadway in 1974. Soon thereafter he was
appointed the university's dramatist-in-residence and subsequently appointed
chair of the drama department in 1978. That same year his first
screenplay, the co-authored script for the routine Chuck Norris action vehicle,
"Good Guys Wear Black (1978), was produced in Hollywood.
Medoff gained even greater acclaim in 1980 with his with his sensitive study of the
romance between a teacher and a rebellious hearing-impaired woman in Children
of a Lesser God. The play won him a Tony Award, and an honorary doctorate
from Gallaudet University.
Medoff continues to write, as well as direct both plays and films. He currently
resides with his wife Stephanie Thorne in Las Cruces, NM.
Sources:
Hollywood.com
Ingrid Kerkhoff's Contemporary American Drama
New Mexico State University
ENotes.com
Director Peter Baker
