Peter Reynolds (Director) currently serves as Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Mauckingbird Theatre Company and Head of Musical Theater for the Department of Theater at Temple University. In the Philadelphia area, he has worked with Act II Playhouse, Media Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre, Candlelight Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Walnut Street Theatre, Curio Theatre; Cape May Stage and the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. Peter hails from the Midwest and for 6 years served as Artistic Director of HealthWorks Theatre-Chicago, winner of the 2000 Award of Excellence in Prevention Education presented by Mayor Daley and the Chicago Dept. of Public Health as well as the 2001 Hall of Fame After Dark Award.  Regionally he has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, HotCity Theatre-St. Louis, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Building Chicago, Apollo Theatre-Chicago, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Maples Repertory, Face to Face Productions, Lillian Russell Theatre, and on the stages of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Drexel University, Arcadia University,  Villanova Theatre, and Southern Illinois University.  

About Mauckingbird Theatre Company
Founded in 2008, Mauckingbird Theatre Company produces innovative, affordable, gay‐themed theater. Past productions include critically acclaimed all male versions of The Misanthrope and Shakespeare's R & J; Caroline Kava’s lesbian adaptation of Hedda Gabler and Jane Chambers’ seminal lesbian play Last Summer at Bluefish Cove; the dark crime drama Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story; TRUand The Threshing Floor, a repertory of one‐man shows about influential gay writers Truman Capote and James Baldwin; original modern interpretations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Pirates of Penzance, The Sisterhood and Tartuffe; the regional premiere of Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s musical [title of show] and Hot ‘n’ Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration; the Philadelphia premiere of Jon Marans’ The Temperamentals; Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, Joshua Harmon's Significant Other, and staged readings of Bad Seed, The Children’s Hour, The Boys in the Band, The Normal Heart, Othello, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.