Peter Biegen is an American screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote the screenplay The Last Lullaby [1] (with Max Allan Collins) [2] and wrote and directed the short film Ceremonies of the Horsemen [3] (starring Richard Schiff and Josh Zuckerman). The short was selected to be part of the permanent archive at the Visual Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. [4]
Biegen has written for Lifetime television, ghost written on several projects, is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada, and a 2014 fellow of the Sundance Institute. [5] He was a writer on the 2017 series The Mist. [6]
Biegen has developed film projects with Michael Apted, Rodrigo Garcia, Julie Lynn, Eric Stoltz and Don Was (among others).
Biegen is also an executive of Parrot Dice Pictures [7] in Los Angeles, and was the host of the internet radio show "The Parrot Dice Pictures Radio Program" from 2009 through 2011.[ citation needed]. His nonfiction work has been published in PopMatters, [8] Playbill, [9] and other periodicals. In 2024 he was awarded a Monson Arts Residency for his writing, and was shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize in Nonfiction [10] for his piece on the 2022 mass shooting in an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
Peter Biegen is an American screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He co-wrote the screenplay The Last Lullaby [1] (with Max Allan Collins) [2] and wrote and directed the short film Ceremonies of the Horsemen [3] (starring Richard Schiff and Josh Zuckerman). The short was selected to be part of the permanent archive at the Visual Center of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. [4]
Biegen has written for Lifetime television, ghost written on several projects, is a member of both the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada, and a 2014 fellow of the Sundance Institute. [5] He was a writer on the 2017 series The Mist. [6]
Biegen has developed film projects with Michael Apted, Rodrigo Garcia, Julie Lynn, Eric Stoltz and Don Was (among others).
Biegen is also an executive of Parrot Dice Pictures [7] in Los Angeles, and was the host of the internet radio show "The Parrot Dice Pictures Radio Program" from 2009 through 2011.[ citation needed]. His nonfiction work has been published in PopMatters, [8] Playbill, [9] and other periodicals. In 2024 he was awarded a Monson Arts Residency for his writing, and was shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize in Nonfiction [10] for his piece on the 2022 mass shooting in an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.