PETER M. FLOYD, a New Hampshire native, developed his first full-length play, Absence, during his time as a playwriting student at Boston University. Absence was co-winner of the Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Award and a finalist for the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition. It has had readings at the Lark Play Development Center in New York, the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and Midtown Direct Rep in South Orange, New Jersey, featuring Olympia Dukakis. Its first full production was at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in February 2014; it was subsequently nominated for both the Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for best new script. Absence has since been produced (in translation) in Norway, Sweden, and Italy. In July 2012, Peter’s play The Centipede King was accepted for development at the MFA Playwrights’ Workshop held at the Kennedy Center. Peter was selected as one of four writers into the New Repertory Theatre’s 2012-13 New Voices fellowship program for developing playwrights. His short plays include The Little Death, Perspective, Love, Billy Bunny, Too, Too Solid Flesh, and Evolution; the latter two appeared in the Smith and Kraus annual Best Ten-Minute Plays anthologies for 2015 and 2017, respectively. Peter is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and belongs to the playwriting group Writers at Play.
