K.T. Peterson

Something strange is happening in the small town of Faith. An unexplained phenomenon in the middle of a pine forest turns neighbor against neighbor, order into chaos, and weird...into weirder. 2pm in Faith, Nebraska is a play about our essential thirst for awe and connection with something--anything--greater than we are.

It's xmas eve in the afterlife, and Alan Rickman meets his match in a heavenly bar that only annoys him. Guess someone better bulk-buy the guacamole.

Clark Longwood has gone missing, under mysterious circumstances. His 8 year old daughter, a stranger, and a washed up FBI agent try to make sense of his sudden disappearance. A feminist noir thriller set in 1962 that explores what it means to be a man in a world that only allows a narrow spectrum for the expression of self.

Razor Creek is a rock concert in coal-mining country, Kentucky. It's 1935, and residents get on
best they can; fighting the devil, cracking jokes, staying alive, but when Razor Creek
experiences an out of the ordinary hardship, like the disappearance of a beloved invalid woman
in town, residents look for something more tangible to blame--her own daughter. Was it murder?
Was she possessed? Or something else all together? Razor Creek is a folk-rock, sci-fi musical
about releasing generational trauma and finding something to sing about...in tight pants.

Nigel, the sole inhabitant of a small island, falls in love with someone he made out of trash. As storms and trash increase, a strange visitor forces Nigel choose between who he was and who he could be. Love Bird is about loneliness, queerness, the meaning of devotion in a single-use society, and the mystery of connection in a messy world.

Is there a nice way to be great?

What is genius and who is granted permission to wield it? /genius uses the intersection of three
world-famous musical minds—Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn—to interrogate the meaning of genius,
the gendered history of the word, and the fetishizing of “great intellects”.

M has just lost her father, as well as all of her teeth. Bloodied and alone at the funeral, she is surprised to discover her imaginary friend from childhood has shown up to help with the arrangements. M forms an unlikely friendship with the funeral director’s wife, and assists her in seeking a divorce from her sexually-deranged husband. M must navigate grief, her crumbling identity, and a nosy investigator in order to salvage the missing pieces of her childhood, and come to terms with her father’s abusive past.

A comedy about psychic goats, pig clones, and staying in school.

Inga is a narcoleptic, single mother determined to keep her deviant daughter Angora from getting expelled and her young daughter, Gerty, from falling in love with an invisible being who lives inside her wallpaper. A well-rehearsed visit from Angora’s science teacher unearths a strange secret, and unforeseen consequences.

Two rival engineers duke it out as the first Vanderbilt nears the end of his life. This American Musical is set in the small town of Asthabula, Ohio, and centers around a freak railroad bridge disaster that left the town haunted forever.

This story is true. While I have fictionalized certain relationships and unknown motivations, Amasa and Collins’s story is achingly true. It was widely believed Collins committed suicide after the trial, but in my research, I uncovered evidence he was murdered. I was also able to uncover the fact Collins’ burial plot was purchased just days before he was killed…by his wife, Mary. Mary lived her life in poverty cleaning houses after his death. She never married or had children. Amasa ended his own life in a bathtub by shooting himself in the heart. Collins died by a blunt force to the head, perhaps while he was sleeping. Ashtabula has scarcely changed population since the time of this tragedy, as though frozen in time.

A re-imagining of Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. A group of old friends rendezvous in Minnesota at the private estate of local businessman Cid Winters. Unexpected romance blooms, an old grudge bursts to the surface, and pals make a messy attempt to trick hardened enemies toward love. This adaptation of Much Ado explores the depths of platonic love.

Set in the 1927 bombed-out ruins of Bath Schoolhouse--the site of the first act of terrorism in an American School--RASH explores the heritage of gun violence in American Schools.

Mary’s Monster is a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s most formative summer, told via the Frankenstein story.
16-year-old Mary is a brilliant writer forced to go to work in a factory to support her family. Her father enlists the financial help of a mysterious stranger to pay off the family’s debt. A destructive romance blossoms between Mary and the young stranger, complicated by her mentally unstable younger sister who has already become smitten. After her other sister becomes pregnant, and she learns the stranger is engaged to another woman, Mary turns to her writing, with unexpected consequences. Mary’s Monster is a retelling of Mary Shelley’s most formative summer, told via the Frankenstein story.