ABOUT ME

Peter Fenton is a playwright, theatre director, and occasional screenwriter and actor on an eternity quest to make good theatre fun and fun theatre good. As the Marketing Manager at Passage Theatre Company, he'll also tell you that life is too short for bad flyers. 

His plays include ABANDON ALL HOPE, a Sartre-inspired dark comedy that premiered Off-Broadway as part of the 2023 Rogue Theater Festival; CORONATION, a teen satire about power and privilege; BLUE SKIES YONDER, a murder mystery inspired by Agatha Christie and late-stage capitalism; and I THINK WE'RE LOST, a darkly comic reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s PETER AND WENDY that premiered in Philadelphia in 2026. His writing frequently collides familiar stories, genres, and cultural touchstones with contemporary characters, using comedy to interrogate the assumptions underneath them.

Fenton’s work has been presented at Theatre Row and The Flea in New York City; Theatre Exile and the Philly Improv Theater in Philadelphia; ArtWorks Trenton; Lambertville Hall; West Art Lancaster; and in school and community theatre groups across the United States. As a director, his productions include Frank Wildhorn’s BONNIE & CLYDE at Newtown Arts Company and Laura Wade’s HOME, I'M DARLING at Langhorne Players. Fenton holds a Bachelor's from Wheaton College in Illinois and completed a postgraduate apprenticeship at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. Raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Fenton now lives in New York City with his partner, Luke, and bartends at a luxury hotel in Midtown.