Peter Friedman

Actor

has appeared in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation, Amy Herzog's After the Revolution, and the Joy Gregory/Gunnar Madsen/John Langs musical The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Playwrights Horizons); Annie Baker's Body Awareness (Atlantic); the Ben Katchor/Mark Mulcahy musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island; and Deborah Zoe Laufer’s End Days. He was in the original New York productions of The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein (Playwrights Horizons) and Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit (earning Drama Desk nominations for both), A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller, C. P. Taylor’s …and a Nightingale Sang, and Execution of Justice by Emily Mann. He also appeared in New York in The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky, Donald Margulies’ The Loman Family Picnic, Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady and the Broadway revival of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. He originated the role of Tateh in the musical Ragtime, receiving an Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. He participated in the New York Musical Theatre Festival in The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. His films include The Savages; I’m Not There; Safe; The Seventh Sign; Single White Female; The Messenger; Synecdoche, New York; Breaking Upwards and the upcoming Love and Other Drugs; Harvest and Coming Up Roses. On television he was a performer on “The Muppet Show,” and a regular on the series “Brooklyn Bridge. (As of October 2012)

Appears in
The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
After the Revolution
The Heidi Chronicles
Circle Mirror Transformation
The Great God Pan