PETER FENTON
playwright + screenwriter
Peter Fenton is a playwright and screenwriter best known for ABANDON ALL HOPE, his dark comedy/drama play that premiered Off-Broadway as part of the Rogue Theater Festival in 2023. Born in a New York City suburb and raised in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Fenton holds a BA from Wheaton College in Illinois and completed a postgraduate apprenticeship at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre.
Fenton's cinematic work has been showcased on the international film festival circuit, earning awards for both his role as producer and co-writer of the psychological thriller NIGHT VOICES with Dadley Productions and for his directorial debut, family drama INHERENTLY SPECIAL, which Fenton wrote and produced through his own company, Fenton Productions.
Fenton's stage plays have been presented at Theatre Row and The Flea in New York City, Lambertville Hall, the Philly Improv Theater, West Art Lancaster, and various community and school theaters. Fenton most enjoys stories exploring identity, relationships, and the meaning of life (or lack thereof), blending layered plots with sharp-witted dialogue.
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Currently based in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Fenton works as the Marketing Associate for Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, New Jersey and additionally freelances for McCarter Theatre at Princeton University, Bucks County Playhouse, Premiere Stages at Kean University, Dadley Productions, and various individual clients.
UP NEXT
A Pilot Production of I THINK WE'RE LOST will be presented February 21-March 1, 2025 at Stansbury High School in the Salt Lake City area! It's the Utah premiere for both this play and my work at large!
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When a jaded, college-aged Peter Pan considers leaving Neverland, Tinker Bell pulls out all the stops to make him stay. She sends the newest Lost Boy and "Wendy 2.0" off on a secret mission to kill Captain Hook before the pirate finds Peter again. Along the way, the newcomers confront unsettling mysteries lurking in Neverland's past.
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​I THINK WE'RE LOST is a not-quite sequel, not-quite adaptation, aged-up dark comedy/drama remix on the classic J.M. Barrie novel, Peter and Wendy. Peter’s a big-hearted, oblivious prankster, the Lost Boys are a rowdy frat house, and Wendy was the put-upon girlfriend who didn’t ask to play “house mother.” Pulling the strings behind it all is the snarky and jealous Tinker Bell, whose methods are less fairy godmother and more The Godfather, as she is trying to keep Peter by any means necessary away from Captain Hook, who is lurking in the shadows, vowing revenge. Serving as the audience point of entry are a new Lost Boy and a “Wendy 2.0”—two present-day college seniors with a one-sided rivalry who have just arrived in Neverland.
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It's the Wicked treatment done for the Peter Pan story, aged up and modernized for a young adult audience with a distinctly witty and dark sense of humor.
"Fenton’s script was both interesting and optimistic. I think the show’s themes of self-improvement and self-forgiveness were highlighted especially well."
RICH MEHRENBERG,
BROADWAYWORLD
REVIEWS
"Fenton's quirky sense of humor, his spot-on timing and pace, and his ability to understand what an audience likes have made
The Thousand-Year Rose my favorite play."
SUZANNE FISHER,
Theater Director
"Behind the dark comedy..., and indeed Fenton has quite the sense of humor and I found myself laughing out loud multiple times, lies an enduring message."