Peter Gil-Sheridan

Peter Gil-Sheridan is a Cuban-American playwright whose play, This Space Between Us, has been developed by both The New Harmony Project and by Page 73 Productions as part of the Page 73 Residency. It was performed off-Broadway with Keen Company under the direction of Jonathan Silverstein in 2022. His play Cockfight, originally written at Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, was further developed by PlayPenn and produced as a podcast by the Parsnip Ship.  His play Useful People was recently developed by the Powerhouse Theatre right here on campus. His newest play Maybe When You’re Older was developed at PlayLabs, The Playwright’s Center’s annual festival of new plays.

His play Ritu Comes Home, commissioned by InterAct in Philadelphia as part of their 20/20 Commission program had its world premiere there. Topsy Turvy Mouse was produced by the Cherry Lane Mentor Project and Borderlands Theatre and was the winner of The Smith Prize awarded by NNPN for outstanding political work. Peter was also a founding member of The Pool, a pop-up theatre company formed with Lynn Rosen and Susan Bernfield that produced his play The Rafa Play in rep with Rosen’s and Bernfield’s work at the Flea Theatre. The Pool is now in its fourth iteration.

Residencies include the Jerome Fellowship, The Sundance Institute, The Millay Colony, The Ucross Foundation, and the Tofte Lake Residency. Peter has also been a member of I73, Page 73’s weekly writing group. He’s performed his solo piece People Tell Me Things at several venues across the U.S. including Ars Nova’s ANTFest, Identity, Inc. in Farmington, NM, at Ucross in Wyoming and on Martha’s Vineyard. He is an Affiliated Artist with the Playwright’s Center and with NNPN.

At Vassar, he was awarded a Ford Fellowship to develop and research his adaptation, Medea and Her Sons, in collaboration with Sydney Duncan ’24. He founded and annually produces The Steerman Festival of New Work that features fully-produced full-length new works by Vassar writers. Alongside students and colleagues, he’s produced 11 new plays. He serves as the Arts Working Group Co-Chair of the Engaged Pluralism Committee, has mentored students who have participated in ModFest, the Creative Arts Across Disciplines Program (CAAD,) Community-Engaged Learning (OCEL,) and advised theses for the the Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Program.

Peter has also brought a number of notable guests to campus in person and virtually including playwrights Paula Vogel, Liz Duffy Adams, Madeleine George, Naomi Iizuka, Clare Barron, Keith Bunin, Becca Blackwell, Lydia Blaisdell, and Mauricio Miranda as well as industry professionals including directors Liz Dahmen and Estefanía Fadul (’10,) Michael Rossmy (Fight Choreographer) Stephanie Spangler (Costume Director, Metropolitan Opera,) Deadria Harrington (’10 and Producing Artistic Director, Movement Theatre Company,) and Becca Blackwell (Performance Artist.)