I’ve started a monthly newsletter! This month, I’ve got a world premiere in Philadelphia, starting a major rewrite of a new script, and got bullied into auditioning for community theater ✨ open.substack.com/pub/bypeterf...
It will never not be funny to me that Jesus was arrested in an olive garden
I was just thinking about the fact I didn't have anything to throw on in the background while doing busywork at my desk today... ask and ye shall receive
Someday this will all be worth it.
Today does not feel like that day 🙏🏻🩵
Photo of Peter bartending while in a light blue baseball cap
“Yeah, you’re gonna see my face in the movies and my poems in the magazines. ‘Poetry by Bonnie Parker.’ And a beautiful picture of me to go ‘long side it like this one.
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In a nice hat. I look good in hats. I got a hat face.”
It’s certifiably insane to me that in the US, we pay for health insurance but our eyes and teeth are add-ons
If I had pets and those pets had a veternarian that wasn’t helping us in any way shape or form, I would simply call this person Dr. Do Nothing
If I were Jay-Z and I were engaged, I would simply tell everyone “this is my Feyoncé”
As an evangelical teenager in the year 2010, I believed with my entire chest that According to You by Orianthi was about Jesus.
The Voice would be infinitely funnier if the judges all started facing the auditioner and push the button to swivel around when they decide they don’t want you
The single least believable thing about Frozen to me is that Anna lived in that castle for 20ish years isolated and bored out of her mind and somehow never clocked that she owned 8,000 salad plates.
I don’t care how big your house is, if you own 8,000 salad plates, you’re going to notice
It's not that hard to write female characters, actually youtube.com/shorts/XRzAw...
I have never once heard a song from Merrily so I’m choosing to believe “Merrily We Roll Along” is sung to the tune of “Here We Come a Wassailing”
Maybe don’t let me write your valentines?
Thinking about that time when I was a customer service rep speaking to someone named Nina and I accidentally said “thank you so much for calling, NeeNee”
and I then immediately hung up 🫠
The light at the end of the tunnel isn’t always a good thing.
Because sometimes it’s a freight train.
🚊
I love my life and also I wouldn’t wish it on anybody 💙
Now that you mention it, I am in fact afraid of Virginia Woolf
I'm in the cast of a musical right now for the first time since high school. We're in rehearsal now and wow, (A) singing, dancing, and acting all at once is a lot of things and (B) I can let myself have so much more fun now that I'm comfortable in my body and masculinity
I recently got active on TikTok, which has led to the same content also being shared to YouTube! Quite proud of this one 🤣 youtube.com/shorts/s5H9m...
I feel like Glowing Luigi would get the idea to get really into crypto for like a week or a month or whatever and then get burned by it and then become vehemently anti-crypto
Had to hop off early for a Zoom interview tonight but was great to be there for a bit! 🤣
Let’s go Philly! I THINK WE’RE LOST runs April 10-19 at Theatre Exile, produced by Pier Players. It’s my unhinged young adult dark comedy retelling of the Peter Pan story.
Tickets are live now! www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pier...
I’m so glad I didn’t become famous before my frontal lobe developed.
I mean, I’m still not famous but now I’m ready if it happens 🤦🏻♂️🤣
So there's a 3 in the front digit of my age, but this week I decided to get active on TikTok. And because there's a 3 in the front digit of my age, I wrote a blog post about it www.bypeterfenton.com/post/tiktok
All right my friends! I officially have a new website now! 🔥 www.byPeterFenton.com
A homepage for Peter Fenton’s upcoming website, dark gray, almost black background with white text “Peter Fenton, Playwright + Screenwriter” and a blue watercolor illustration of a shark as part of his logo
Descriptions and posters of Peter’s four most recent plays, CORONATION, BLUE SKIES YONDER, I THINK WE’RE LOST, and ABANDON ALL HOPE
My new website is coming together quite nicely! Still a few more things to populate before I can launch but I’m feeling like it accurately captures my voice and brand right now
my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.
