doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Peter Mills

PETER MILLS

  
Nationality:    USA
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    Gurman Agency LLC  

Peter Mills's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

please send corrections / additions to doollee as an attachment -> download WORD submission template

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Peter Mills's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alchemists, The - A New Musical         Death For Five Voices         Evergreen: A New Holiday Musical         Flood, The         Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge         Hello Girls, The         Honor         Illyria         Iron Curtain         Lonely Rhymes         Marco Polo         Pursuit of Persephone, The         Rockae, The         Taxi Cabaret, The
Alchemists, The - A New Musical

Synopsis:
Foxwood Hall. the master has his two sons tutored at home together with the tutor's two sons. He then brings his ward a girl home and things are never the same again.

Notes:
Music by Peter Mills; lyrics by Peter Mills; book by Peter Mills; book by Cara Reichel.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
https://twitter.com/TweeterMills

Top of Page Top of Page

Death For Five Voices

Synopsis:
The story of Carlo Gesualdo composer and murderer. He discovered his wife and her lover in bed stabbed both of them then mutilated their corpses

Notes:
Music, lyrics and book by Peter Mills

1st Produced:
Sheen Center, New York     2016

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Evergreen: A New Holiday Musical

Synopsis:
Maya, thirteen, lives in the desert. She has heard that there is snow and trees up north but she does not believe it. So she goes on a journey to find them. On the way she encounters a san storm and a Water Witch. She sails across an ocean in a magic boat and finds a petrified forest

Notes:
Music by Peter Mills; lyrics by Peter Mills; book by Peter Mills; book by Cara Reichel.

1st Produced:
Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, NY     19 Dec 2009

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Flood, The

Synopsis:
A small village on the banks of the Mississippi is threatened when the river floods.

Notes:
book, music, And lyrics by Peter Mills And Cara Reichel

1st Produced:
Churnuchin Theatre, New York     2006

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge

Synopsis:
John Millington Synge's the Playboy of the Western World is transplanted to the wilds of 1930s Appalachia in this new bluegrass musical by Peter Mills. On the run and desperate, outlaw Clayton Monroe appears one evening at the door of fiesty Maggie McFarland and her Father J.M., a moonshiner. J.M. hires Clay to protect his daughter from the revenuers, as well as her overly attentive fiancee, Luther, and the conniving neighbor, Hazel. Left alone together, spitfire Maggie softens, and Clay begins to see himself through her eyes, becoming the "golden boy" she has always envisioned would find her.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
book, music And lyrics Peter Mills; Adapted by Peter Mills And Cara Reichel

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Prospect Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Hello Girls, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Music and lyrics Peter Mills; book Peter Mills; Cara Reichel

1st Produced:
59E59 Theater B, New York     13 Nov 2018

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Honor

Synopsis:
Shakespeare's As You Like It transplanted to feudal Japan
- press release

Notes:
book, music And lyrics by Peter Mills And Cara Reichel

1st Produced:
Hudson Guild, NY     2008

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Illyria

Synopsis:
Viola works for the Duke dressed in her brother's clothes and going by the name Sebastian. The Duke sends her to Countess Olivia with a message of love. Olivia finds she has feelings for Sebastian. The Duke finds that he has feelings for Sebastian too

Notes:
Music, Lyrics, and Co-adapter: Peter C. Mills. Co-adapter: Cara Reichel

1st Produced:
Shakespeare Thetre, New Jersey     2003

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Studio cast recording: Shakespeare theatre New Jersey (STNJ001) 2005

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Gay musical of interest

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
apply for a license: www.theatricalrights.com/contact-us/

Top of Page Top of Page

Iron Curtain

Synopsis:
Howard and Murray are unsuccessful writers of musicals. they come up with an idea for a musical about a failing baseball team just as "Damn Yankees" opens on Broadway. In the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev loves a good musical. However, the Soviet writers only turn out mediocre ones. So he sends agents to New York to kidnap someone who will write him a good musical.

Notes:
book by Peter Mills And Cara Reichel, music And lyrics by Peter Mills

1st Produced:
Church Of St Paul And St Andrew, New York     12 Apr 2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Lonely Rhymes

Synopsis:
Loneliness in present day New York

Notes:
Music, lyrics and book by Peter Mills

1st Produced:
59E59 Theater B, New York     24 Sep 2005

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Marco Polo

Synopsis:
The journeys of Marco Polo

Notes:
Music by Deborah Abramson; lyrics and book by Peter Mills

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pursuit of Persephone, The

Synopsis:
1938 Scott Fitzgerald waits in a restaurant for Ginerva King. He thinks back to 1916 and college and how they first met

Notes:
Music by Peter Mills; lyrics by Peter Mills; book by Peter Mills; book by Cara Reichel. Based on the novel "This Side of Paradise" by F Scott Fitzgerald

1st Produced:
Connelly Theater, NY     2005

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  6            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Rockae, The

Synopsis:
Pent-up King Pentheus takes on Dionysus and his frenzied female fans when the god of wine and theater returns to thebes. Get ready for moshing Maenads and thrashing catharsis in this rock musical adaptation of Euripides's classic, the Bacchae.
- press release

Notes:
book by Peter Mills And Cara Reichel, music And lyrics by Peter Mills

1st Produced:
Hudson Guild, NY     2007

Organisations:
Prospect Theater Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Taxi Cabaret, The

Taxi Cabaret, The
The Taxi Cabaret follows six people in their twenties during their first year in New York City. Scott, an aspiring novelist, discovers that you do not have to suffer to write. Mark and Sara test their relationship when they move in together. Zach lives an E-ZPass lifestyle, staying safely in the closet, while the eternally unlucky but relentlessly optimistic Karen falls for him, only to have her heart broken. C.C. is an actress/temp who longs for something in her life that will last more than sixteen bars.

Notes:
Music, lyrics and book by Peter Mills; conceived by Cara Reichel

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/4259/taxi-cabaret-the   

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Musical. - - Gay/Lesbian, musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page