Peter S Petralia is a producer, director, writer, curator and artistic director of Proto-type Theater. With Proto-type, he has written twelve full-length performance works that have premiered in New York City, North Carolina, the United Kingdom, Romania and Amsterdam. He is the recipient of several awards, grants and residencies including the HERE Artist Residency Program (NYC), Lincoln Center Director’s Lab (NYC), Das Arts (Amsterdam), 2004 nytheatre.com Person of the Year (NYC), Artward Bound of the Field (NYC), Chashama Area Award (NYC), Mondo Cane Commission from Dixon Place (NYC), TCG/ITI Travel Grant (NYC/Russia), The Creative Lab at The Center for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Outside/Input Program of Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NYC), IETM Intro Award, and Jerome Foundation Commission from PS122 (NYC). Peter curated the 2002 Queer@HERE Festival, the 2003 Fuse Festival and Avant-Garde-Arama at PS122, and has been a guest artist in Busan, South Korea, Giesen, Germany and Asheville, North Carolina. Peter is the 2008-09 New Work Network Activator for the North West of England and is currently completing his PhD at Lancaster University where he is a recipient of an Overseas Research Award. Peter is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire and at Lancaster University in Theatre Studies.