Peter Lewis

ABOUT PETER LEWIS’ LEGACY OF WORK

After graduating from the Yale School of Drama and the William Esper Studio, Peter Lewis spent many years working in the Off and Off-Off Broadway New York theatre scene, before appearing in lead and supporting roles in a number of feature films including “A Complete Unknown”, “Terrifier 3”, “Motherless Brooklyn”, “Stone”, “Untraceable”, “Greater”, “The Bourne Legacy”, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, “Pineapple Express”, “Down in the Valley” and many others.

Among his many appearances on television, he has appeared in guest starring and recurring roles on “The Black List”, “Mad Men”, “30 Rock”, “Law & Order SVU”, “Dirty John: Betty”, “Interrogation”, “Person of Interest”, “Boston Legal” and several times on the original “Law & Order”. As an actor in film, he has worked opposite such great talents as Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Willem Defoe, Cherry Jones, Bruce Dern, Tim Roth, Jason Bateman, and many others.

He has appeared on stage in over 70 plays, touring nationally with The Acting Company as Joe in Tennessee Williams’ “The Long Goodbye”, and receiving a Best Actor nomination from the 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards for his portrayal of Andrew in Chuck Mee’s two-character play, “Lemonade Tous Les Jour”, which won the award for Best Ensemble Cast.

As a teacher, Peter has trained with two of the great master teachers of the Meisner technique, William Esper and Terry Knickerbocker, and has taught the Meisner technique in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia.

He is currently in pre-production for a short film he wrote and will direct, a Western set in the American West of the 1870’s, and is writing a book about his life on the road, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains across America in the early 1980’s.