Peter Welkin

Originally from America's Dairyland, Wisconsin, Peter is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. He has work-shopped developed numerous musicals and has worked as a writer, producer, director, and sight-singing actor with New Musicals Inc./Academy Repertory Company. He has co-produced the highly successful A Little New Music concert series at Catalina Jazz Club and at the Wallis Annenberg Performing Arts Center. Peter's West Coast credits include Musical Theatre Guild's Titanic, Anatoly in Musical Theatre LA's Chess In Concert, George in Sunday In The Park With George, and Roger in A New Brain at West Coast Ensemble. His new musical melodrama parody, When Butter Churns to Gold, had its world premiere in 2015 at Northern Sky Theater in Wisconsin, ran for a second summer season there in 2016 and was produced again in 2017 at the Great American Melodrama in Oceano, CA. Previous television credits include Crusade, a spin-off of Babylon 5, and two full seasons of Boystown airing in Canada and Northern Europe. Film projects include: Singles Night, A Thing Called Happiness, Brahmin Bulls, and Mother's Day. He has three children, Miranda, Nathan and Genevieve.