Peter Gil-Sheridan is a Cuban-American playwright whose play This Space Between Us was produced off-Broadway by Keen Company and developed at New Harmony and P73. Cockfight, written at SoHo Rep’s Writer/Director Lab, was developed by PlayPenn and produced as a podcast by The Parsnip Ship.
His plays Useful People and Medea and Her Sons were developed at Powerhouse. Maybe When You’re Older was developed at The Playwrights’ Center’s PlayLabs.
He was recently commissioned by History Theatre to write the musical Marielitos, about the Mariel Boatlift, in collaboration with Cristina Luzurraga and Julián Mesri, with development at Powerhouse in July. Other work includes Ritu Comes Home, commissioned and premiered by InterAct Theatre Company, and Topsy Turvy Mouse, produced by the Cherry Lane Mentor Project and Borderlands Theater. The Rafa Play was produced by The Pool, a pop-up theatre company he founded with Lynn Rosen and Susan Bernfield.
He teaches at Vassar College.
