Playwright Peter Snoad

The playwright
Born and raised in London, England, Peter Snoad now lives in Boston. A self-described "recovering actor", he's written professionally for over 30 years, first as a journalist and then as a fundraiser and communications specialist for nonprofit organizations. His other full-length works include Rosa, a dramatic comedy about the "war on terror," premiered by the Alarm Clock Theater at the Boston Centre for the Arts, and The Boiling House, a drama set in the Caribbean that deals with the legacy of slavery. The Boiling House is a finalist in the 2007 Next Generation Playwriting Contest of Reverie Productions, a New York City-based company. Among Peter's short plays (with sample productions) are: Entitled (staged at the American Globe Theater and Turnip Theater, New York City); Resistance (Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater); My Name Is Art (Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA), and A Fresh Start (Devanaughn Theater, Boston). As a stage actor, Peter has performed in recent years in theatres in Boston, Vermont and New Hampshire. Favorite roles include The King in Exit the King, Sorin in The Seagull, Leslie in Taking Steps, and Fred in Present Laughter. Peter had his first film acting experience at the age of five when he appeared opposite Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch in A Town Like Alice, an adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. He's appeared on-camera in various promotional films and TV commercials, and his authentic British voice has been heard on everything from a narrated slideshow at a new museum in Alexandria, Egypt to radio ads for a mattress company. In his regular "day job", Peter is the staff director of a small private foundation. His wife, Mindy Fried, is a sociologist , and their 15-year-old daughter, Sasha, is a sophomore at Boston Latin School. When he's not writing plays, Peter loves to spend time with his family, go to the theatre, read, hike, watch movies, cook, enjoy the beauty of the natural world, cheer for the Boston Red Sox, and cultivate an organic vegetable garden. His heirloom tomatoes are especially prized by grateful neighbors who share in the bounty. Peter is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Director Peter Jaye

The director
Peter Jaye has been working professionally as an actor and director for more than 40 years. Before relocating to North Carolina in 2003, Peter spent 25 years in New York and L.A.
Peter has appeared on Broadway in Tom Topor's play Nuts; Circle in the Square's production of Once In A Lifetime with John Lithgow and Treat Williams; and the National Tour of Me And My Girl starring Tim Curry.
Off-Broadway credits include: King Oedipus starring James Earl Jones; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the first musical written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken; The Freak, Twelfth Night and Promises, Promises as well as dozens of Off-Off Broadway showcase productions.
In addition to appearing in over 50 commercials, his television credits include: "Hunter," "Night Court," "Almost Grown," "The Doctors," "All My Children," an episode of "The Colombo Mystery Wheel" and a Movie of the Week, entitled "Trenchcoat in Paradise" starring Dirk Benedict.
Since moving to NC, Peter has appeared at The Charlotte Repertory Theatre as Nunzio in Over The River And Through The Woods and at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville,SC as Claude in An Empty Plate At The Cafe Du Grand Beouf, as Father in A Child's Christmas In Wales, As Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and as Turai in Rough Crossing.

Guided Tour wins 2007 Stanley Award
On Monday, April 16, 2007, Peter Snoad's Guided Tour was awarded the 50th Stanley Drama Award during a ceremony held at the historic Lambs Club in Manhattan. The award was presented by actress and lyricist Gretchen Cryer (I'm Getting My Life Together and Taking It on the Road). The Stanley Drama Award was established in 1957 by Staten Island philanthropist Alma Guyon Timolat Stanley and endowed through the Stanley-Timolat Foundation. The national Stanley Award competition is administered by the Theater Department of Wagner College (off-site link). Past winners of the Stanley Drama Award include Terrence McNally's This Side of the Door, Lonne Elder III's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Jonathan Larson's Rent and Dylan Brody's Mother May I. Previous judges have been playwrights Edward Albee and Paul Zindel, actresses Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley, and TV producer/pioneer talk-show host David Susskind.
Guided Tour won Centre Stage-South Carolina's 2006 New Play Contest. It was also a finalist in the national new play competitions of three other companies - Hinton Battle Theatre Lab and Reverie Productions, both based in New York City, and HRC Showcase Theatre in Hudson, NY.