Peter C. Mills received the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from The ASCAP Foundation, and received a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. Most recently, he wrote book, music, and lyrics for THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE, (nominated for two Drama Desk Awards: Best Music, Best Orchestrations) a new musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s college years. In 2004 he wrote the music and lyrics for LONELY RHYMES, a comic song cycle, and in 2003 he wrote the book, music, and lyrics for THE ALCHEMISTS.ILLYRIA, a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT for which he also wrote book, music, and lyrics, had its regional premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Fall 2004, and a cast album of that production was released in April 2005. THE TAXI CABARET, his first new musical, was originally performed in 2000, and in Fall 2004 was published by Samuel French.With Cara Reichel, he wrote THE FLOOD, which was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop (2001). MARCO POLO, his NYU thesis musical with composer Deborah Abramson, was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop in 2000, and Peter and Deborah were chosen as 2000-01 Dramatists Guild Fellows.Peter holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and a degree in English/Dramatic Literature from Princeton University.
- Tim Acito
- Daniel S. Acquisto
- Marion Adler
- Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes
- Gerard Alessandrini
- Todd Almond
- Billy Aronson
- John August
- Glen Ballard
- Annie Barrows
- Chad Beguelin
- David H. Bell
- Nell Benjamin
- Neil Berg
- Jonanthan Bernstein
- Craig Bohmler
- Stephen Bray
- Edie Brickell
- Marshall Brickman
- Jason Robert Brown
- David Bryan
- Sammy Buck
- Craig Carnelia
- Robert Cary
- Warren Casey
- Philip Cody
- Michael Colby
- Andy Collyer
- Patrick Cook
- Gareth Cooper
- Bob Crewe
- Ryan Cunningham
- Joan Cushing
- Lear deBessonet
- Alexander Dinelaris
- Joe DiPietro
- Jeremy Dobrish
- Jenna Donnelly
- Anthony Drewe
- John Du Prez
- Fred Ebb
- Rick Elice
- Stephan Elliott
- Scott Elmegreen
- Ben Elton
- Colin Escott
- Gloria Estefan
- Emilio Estefan
- Beth Falcone
- Jules Feiffer
- Julian Fellowes
- Jeffrey Finn
- Drew Fornarola
- Frederick Freyer
- Mark Friedman
- Larry Gallagher
- Bob Gaudio
- Ned Paul Ginsburg
- Kenneth Grahame
- Howard Greenfield
- John Gregor
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Sean Hartley
- Jon Hartmere
- Tom Hedley
- Alex Higgin-Houser
- Rupert Holmes
- David Howard
- John Michael Howson
- Alison Hubbard
- Eric Idle
- Damon Intrabartolo
- Erik Jackson
- Jim Jacobs
- Brandon Jay
- John Kander
- Victoria Kann
- Elizabeth Kann
- Lawrence Kasdan
- David Kisor
- Timothy Knapman
- David Kornfeld
- Stephen Lawrence
- Robert Lindsey-Nassif
- Andrew Lippa
- Larry Little
- John Maclay
- Ethan Lewis Maltby
- Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Melissa Manchester
- Sonia Manzano
- Dylan MarcAurele
- Steve Martin
- Bob Martin
- Joseph McDonough
- Erin McKeown
- Bill Meade
- Nick Meglin
- Britt Menzies
- Brendan Milburn
- Peter C. Mills
- David Mitchell
- Melvyn Morrow
- Floyd Mutrux
- Marsha Norman
- Kim Oler
- Fitz Patton
- Greg Pierce
- Stuart Matthew Price
- Monty Python
- Queen
- Cara Reichel
- Mike Reid
- Dan Remmes
- Steve Rosen
- David Rossmer
- Robbie Roth
- Bruce Joel Rubin
- Brenda Russell
- Brett Ryback
- Mark Saltzman
- Joshua Salzman
- Gwendolyn Sanford
- Robin Schiff
- Sarah Schlesinger
- Allan Scott
- Neil Sedaka
- William Shakespeare
- Molly Shannon
- Rachel Sheinkin
- Bret Simmons
- Matthew Sklar
- Dave Stewart
- George Stiles
- Peter Stone
- Laura Stratford
- Peter Ullian
- Sharon Vaughn
- Valerie Vigoda
- Janet Yates Vogt
- Bob Walton
- Simon Warne
- Eric H. Weinberger
- Scott Wentworth
- Annabel Wigoder
- Allee Willis
- Ben H. Winters