Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Playwright

2007 boom

"Nachtrieb, who just won the $25,000 Steinberg Award for his Hunter Gatherers, has a real knack for the unexpected and a gift for the snappy phrase."
--Channing Gray, ProJo

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include boom, Hunter Gatherers, Colorado, Meaningless, and The Amorphous Blob. boom was developed during the 2007 Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep and received its world premiere production in New York at Ars Nova in March 2008 to strong reviews. The play is slated for a production in fall 2008 at DC's Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Hunter Gatherers received the 2007 American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg New Play Award for best new play to premiere outside of New York and the 2007 Will Glickman Prize for best new play in the Bay Area. His work has been also been seen at SPF in New York, the Bailiwick in Chicago, W.H.A.T. in New England, Dad’s Garage in Atlanta and the Magic Theatre, Killing My Lobster and Impact Theatre in the Bay Area. He is currently under commission from Encore Theatre Company (SF) for a play called TIC set to premiere in 2009. He's also working on a commission for South Coast Rep and is a 2008 Resident Playwright at the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco. Peter holds a degree in Theater and Biology from Brown and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He likes to promote himself online at www.peternachtrieb.com.