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Peter Carl Anderson is a Canadian-American playwright, actor and clown born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950.

Life and work
After attending the Residential College at the University of Michigan and the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Peter hitch-hiked to British Columbia, Canada in 1977 to join the horse-drawn Caravan Stage Company. His extensive body of work as a playwright — over a dozen plays — for the Caravan Farm Theatre has been lauded as "populist high comedy.” His plays have been performed internationally and across Canada, including the National Arts Centre. As a performer he’s most known for his lead role in the Canadian production The Overcoat , which toured internationally and was filmed for CBC-TV, and as a co-creator and performer in the physical comedy The Number 14. He’s performed in Waiting for Godot on three occasions (in the roles of Vladimir and Lucky) and appeared at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre in The Overcoat , The Tosca Project, and Fatherville. He’s the recipient of six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for Vancouver theatre , a Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, Leo (BC) and Gemini (Canada) nominations for best performance in a film (The Overcoat), a NY Drama Desk nomination, as well as theatre nominations in Toronto and Calgary, and three Avery Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry at the University of Michigan. He lives in Vancouver with playwright and mask-designer Melody Anderson.

Plays
The Coyotes, 1978 Horseplay (with Phil Savath), 1981 Law of the Land, 1982 Animal Farm (with Nick Hutchinson), 1985 El Crocodor (with company),1986 Rattle in the Dash, 1987 Bull By the Horns, 1987 Bones, 1988 The Shepherds' Play, 1989 Creation, 1991 Nativity, 1991 The Number 14 (collective), 1992 Passion, 1993 Lysistrata, 1995 The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw (with John Millard), 1999 A Sleigh-Ride Christmas Carol, 2000 The Coyotes' Christmas, 2001 The Blue Horse, 2007 The Emperor's New Threads (with Melody Anderson), 2007 Don Quixote (with Colin Heath), 2010 Head Over Heels, 2014 Flee (with David Hudgins & Jonathon Young), 2015 Still Life, 2016

Monologues and Short Pieces
Air / Toast / Public Speaking / Who Do You Think You Are / Audition Piece, Brave New Works, Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary, 1988-1995 Torment, The Kiss Commissions, Performance Works, Vancouver, 1995 Picture Window, Playwrights Theatre Centre, New Play Festival, Vancouver, 1996 Stupid, commissioned by Corrine Koslo for “The Joy of Six”, Women in View, 1998 After/Math, opera libretto with Jennifer Butler, composer, 2011 Background Noise, song (Peggy Lee, composer), 2014

Other Published Work
Fiction & Poetry in Anon, Periodical Lunch, Cider Press Broadsides. 1972-77 Rattle in the Dash (Playwrights Canada Press: 1988) Two monologues in The Perfect Piece (Playwrights Canada Press: 1990) "Breaking All Four Walls" (Canadian Theatre Review #75, Fall 1993) Monologue in Another Perfect Piece (Playwrights Canada Press: 1995) “Play of the Land” article for the Vancouver Sun (August 28,1999) Horseplay in Playing the Pacific Province: An Anthology of British Columbia Plays 1967-2000 (Playwrights Canada Press: 2001) Monologue in Refractions:Solo (Playwrights Canada Press: 2014)

Links
Horse Drawn Magic IMDB > Peter Anderson Playwrights Guild of Canada > Peter Anderson Doolee online database of playwrights and theatre plays> Peter Anderson