Peter Floyd

Peter M. Floyd, a New Hampshire native, began his playwriting career with the short play "The Little Death," which won the Audience Choice award for best play at the Playwrights' Platform Festival in 2006. Other short plays include "Objective," "Big Eddie," "The Green Room," "Perspective," and "Love, Billy Bunny." Peter received his MFA in playwriting from Boston University, where he developed his first full-length play, Absence. 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 the Boston...

Peter M. Floyd, a New Hampshire native, began his playwriting career with the short play "The Little Death," which won the Audience Choice award for best play at the Playwrights' Platform Festival in 2006. Other short plays include "Objective," "Big Eddie," "The Green Room," "Perspective," and "Love, Billy Bunny." Peter received his MFA in playwriting from Boston University, where he developed his first full-length play, Absence. 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 the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in February 2014, and was nominated for the Elliot Norton Award for best new script. In July 2012, The Centipede King was accepted for development at the MFA Playwrights' Workshop held at the Kennedy Center; in December, 2012, it was presented as a staged reading in Boston by the Vagabond Theatre Group. Peter was selected as one of four playwrights into the New Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 New Voices program for developing playwrights, and his latest play, Protocol, had a reading at the New Rep in May 2013.

Scripts

After

by Peter Floyd

1

Cast Size

6

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

science fiction

It's the end of the world... actually, it's a few years past the end of the world. All of humanity has disappeared, except for fifty or so people who remain, trying to get the human race started again, under the benevolent direction of their leader, Clive. But is it so benevolent? A young woman named Parker thinks he's hiding something. Everyone else think's Parker is crazy. And she might be... but that doesn't...

It's the end of the world... actually, it's a few years past the end of the world. All of humanity has disappeared, except for fifty or so people who remain, trying to get the human race started again, under the benevolent direction of their leader, Clive. But is it so benevolent? A young woman named Parker thinks he's hiding something. Everyone else think's Parker is crazy. And she might be... but that doesn't mean she's wrong.

Protocol

by Peter Floyd

Cast Size

5

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

political,

satire

Protocol is a dark comedy set in a dangerous and volatile world. Richard Hook is a young man dragged from his home by armed men and taken to a secret location, where he is grilled by a series of interrogators about his supposed connections to a dangerous terrorist. As Richard maintains his innocence, his questioners seem more concerned with their bureaucratic infighting than in finding out the truth. But perhaps...

Protocol is a dark comedy set in a dangerous and volatile world. Richard Hook is a young man dragged from his home by armed men and taken to a secret location, where he is grilled by a series of interrogators about his supposed connections to a dangerous terrorist. As Richard maintains his innocence, his questioners seem more concerned with their bureaucratic infighting than in finding out the truth. But perhaps truth is better left hidden, as Richard learns to his horror that no one is truly guiltless, least of all himself.

The Centipede King

by Peter Floyd

1

Cast Size

4

Genre

drama,

horror,

mystery/thriller

Something bad happened when Rachel was a teenager. Now an adult, she relates the story of her little sister Lily, who was haunted by the mysterious and possibly dangerous entity called the Centipede King. But as Rachel’s narrative unwinds, it takes on a life of its own, independent of her, and she learns that there are some things more frightening than monsters. The limits of truth, storytelling, and memory are...

Something bad happened when Rachel was a teenager. Now an adult, she relates the story of her little sister Lily, who was haunted by the mysterious and possibly dangerous entity called the Centipede King. But as Rachel’s narrative unwinds, it takes on a life of its own, independent of her, and she learns that there are some things more frightening than monsters. The limits of truth, storytelling, and memory are all exposed in this tale of the horror that lies within one family.

Absence

by Peter Floyd

2

Cast Size

6

Genre

drama,

experimental

Helen Bastion is 74 years old, but age has not taken its toll on this matriarch’s will or her need to control her family, from her compliant husband David to her resentful daughter Barb. But when she begins to suffer lapses of memory, her steely facade begins to crumble. As words lose their meaning and reality fragments, Helen’s own sense of self starts to dissolve. Is she truly disappearing, or is she becoming...

Helen Bastion is 74 years old, but age has not taken its toll on this matriarch’s will or her need to control her family, from her compliant husband David to her resentful daughter Barb. But when she begins to suffer lapses of memory, her steely facade begins to crumble. As words lose their meaning and reality fragments, Helen’s own sense of self starts to dissolve. Is she truly disappearing, or is she becoming something greater, as the mysterious, mocking figure known as Dr. Bright promises her? Helen struggles desperately to find meaning in an existence that is slowly and inexorably becoming a void.