Associate Artistic Director

Ensemble Member Since: 2005

Mad Horse Productions:
Actor:
The Normal Heart, The Cryptogram, Mr. Happiness, Hedda: A Re-Vision, The Pillowman, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Bug, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Drunks, Cloud 9, Suburban Motel (Featuring Loretta & Risk Everything)

Director:
Six Degrees of Separation, The Maiden's Prayer, The History Boys, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You

Production Manager:
Hedda: A Re-Vision, The Pillowman

Peter Brown holds a BA in Drama (Acting & Directing) from Dartmouth College. Prior to moving to Portland in 1998, he was the founding Artistic Director of The St. Croix Community Players in his hometown of Woodland, Maine and a freelance director and acting teacher in the Lebanon, NH area. Peter has been the Production Manager at Portland Stage Company since 1999, where he is also an Affiliate Artist, coordinates PSC’s new play festivals (The Little Festival of the Unexpected and From Away), manages each season’s intern company, and coordinates theater rentals with other locals performing arts organizations. Peter has been the Advisor/Director of the Portland High School since 2002 and the Summer Theater Producer at The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor for the past three seasons. He was formerly a teaching artist with the Children’s Theater of Maine, an acting instructor for Waynflete Academy and the Summertime Arts Program at Waynflete, and production manager for the Maine Summer Dramatic Institute.

Peter has been an ensemble member of Mad Horse Theatre Company since 2005, where he has acted in productions of The Pillowman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Cloud 9, Bug, Drunks, Suburban Motel and Hedda: A Re-Vision. He has also acted with several other local theaters: Portland Stage Company (Comedy of Errors); The PSC Studio Series (The Food Chain); The Stage at Spring Point (Twelfth Night & The Miser); Portland Players (Noises Off!, I Hate Hamlet & Dial M for Murder—all with Michael Rafkin); The Children’s Theater of Maine (The Wrestling Season); The Escapists; ROiL (Close to Home); MainePlay Productions (Torch Song Trilogy); and The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor (Twelfth Night, Almost, Maine & Indoor/Outdoor).