Peter sinn nachtrieb biography

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, 6'6", is a San Francisco-based playwright who often writes about misfits, biology, apocalypse, and people struggling against large systems.
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, 6’6”, is a San Francisco-based playwright whose works include BOOM (TCG's most produced play 2009-10), BOB (2011 Humana Festival for New American Plays at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Barrie and Bernice Stavis Award).
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Colorado

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THE STORY: “I want to use this crown to change the world! If I can just change one life, one little insignificant life, I think it will justify the beauty that God has given me.” So ends the victory speech of seventeen-year-old Tracey Ackhart upon her coronation as Miss Late Teen Colorado. Alas, a day before the national pageant in Virginia Beach, Tracey disappears, hurling the rest of her family, whose lives until then had revolved around her, into disarray. Grace and Ron, Tracey’s mismatched parents, differ in the way they cope. Travis, Tracey’s awkward, sexually awakening younger brother, is unsure how to feel about a sister who ruthlessly tormented him. The ties of family begin to fray, flashbacks uncover mystery, and startling discoveries and revelations hurtle the entire family towards an emotional abyss. Darker memories emerge, nervous breakdowns erupt, the cause of Tracey’s disappearance is uncovered. COLORADO is a sharp, dark comedy tinged with tragedy and sadne

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Boom

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Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

According to his own website, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, 6’6″, is a San Francisco-based playwright who often writes about misfits, biology, apocalypse, and people struggling against large systems. His works include the plays “boom” (TCG’s most produced play 2009-10), “BOB: A Life in 5 Acts”, “The Totalitarians”, “Hunter Gatherers”, “The Making of a Great Moment”, “A House Tour of the Infamous Porter Family Mansion with Tour Guide Weston Ludlow Londonderry”, “T.I.C. (Trenchcoat In Common)”, “Colorado, Litter: The True Story of the Framingham Dodecutuplets”, and the musical “Fall Springs” with composer/co-lyricist Niko Tsakalakos.

His work has been seen off-Broadway and across the world including at Ars Nova, Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Southern Rep, Barrington Stage Company, Kitchen Dog, Merrimack Repertory and in the Bay Area at Z Space, A.C.T., Encore Theatre, Killing My Lobster, Marin Theatre Company, Impact Theatre, and The Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His plays have received numerous awards including the Wil

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boom

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THE STORY: “Sex to Change the Course of the World” —a grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of “no strings attached” sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the influences of fate versus randomness in the course of one’s life, and life as we know it on the planet.

“Mr. Nachtrieb has a gift for darkly funny dialogue and an appealing way of approaching big themes sideways. [boom] winds up speaking, quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end.” —The New York Times.

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