If I were a Dad

This is a bit of acting I did last year for the Sony Playstation Move console. Look, I'm a father!

A bit of Pittsburgh

Had a very nice 48 Hours in Pittsburgh!

Highlights (basically everything I did):

• Working and talking comedy with the fabulous writers of the Carnegie Mellon Dramatic Writing Program calmly helmed by the great Rob Handel
• A church turned into a brewery
• A phenomenal prodution of Hunter Gatherers at Bricolage Theatre. Featuring the most realistic and shocking "pulling the knife out of Dead Wendy" moment I've witnessed. And amazing fake blood. And an amazing audience
• The Warhol Museum featuring the most amazing room filled with silver balloons I have ever been in. It's a room with lots of fans and giant silver balloons flying around and you walk into it. I don't know if description does it justice. But it was sublime

And now BOB is closed

So i have no idea what to write about. Give me a sec

Bob's final week in KY and the White Castle is Getting Sentimental

A Podcast about BOB

Heya! I had a nice interview about BOB with the folks at the Inexplicable Dumb Show who covered the Humana Festival this year. Listen to Sean Daniels and I talk about the production. And before us you can listen to a fabulous interview with the fabulous Anne Washburn, author of A Devil at Noon. (We start at 16:30)

Listen to the Podcast here

My first (and only) fan video?

I just found this on YouTube. A poem mashed up from text from my play boom. Amazing!

Handy Positive Pullquotes for BOB

I'm back home in San Francisco but BOB continues to perform as we speak. Like right now, there somewhere in the middle of Act 1. It's been an amazing ride and I am so proud of the production and the amazing team who put it on. And we're getting some media love:

Here are the pullquotes so far:

HANDY POSITIVE PULLQUOES FOR BOB

“It is said I loved Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's BOB.*

The play's shockingly optimistic tone is downright subversive when you consider its subject: what it means to be a success in America. How are the new legends made? Slightly unsound of mind and decidedly stout of heart.

For those of us who have found the career ground completely shifted beneath our feet, with the old paths no longer applicable, this play is more than a silly, picaresque romp through the diners and monuments of Middle America (though it is also that). It asks us to reconsider the worth of tangible recognition in favor of a more elusive reward. Rather than an Arthur Miller-esque indictment of the American Dream, Nachtrieb proposes a more gentle — though no less emotional — revision.”
Erin Keane, Lousiville Courier-Journal
*first sentence is from her twitter link to the article


“An epic journey of self-invention, a picaresque comedy that sprawls across the American cultural and geographical landscape, taking in rest stops and mansions along the way. Nachtrieb’s sketch-filled script hearkens back to Thurberesque satire, pointed but gentle, and unfailingly optimistic.“
Marty Rosen, Leo Weekly

Nachtrieb shakes us awake from what’s become an American Nightmare and, reconfiguring the idea of what makes a person great, finds a new dream to strive for in the end. It's also a damn funny play
David Loeher, 2Amt

“Talk about mixing low cuisine with high culture. The whole story is laugh-out-loud funny and thought provoking. It is at once brutal in the reality it presents but also hopeful and contemplative. The writing and delivery are fast-paced.”
Angela Champion, Louisvilleky.com

“I enjoyed Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's "BOB," a sort of American pop-culture ‘Peer Gynt.’”
David Sheward, Backstage.

“Pretty much everyone also loved Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s Bob...The play is a surreal biography, covering the life from birth to death of Bob, who is abandoned as a baby in the ladies’ room of a White Castle and who rises, in a series of hilarious steps, to become wealthy and famous. Jeffrey Binder was wonderful as Bob, and Aysan Celik, Polly Lee, Danny Schele and Lou Sumrall were delightful as multiple characters Bob meets on his life’s journey. Sean Daniels’ direction was clever and inventive.”
Larry Harbison, Playfixer

“[A] comic amalgam of Brechtian epic theatre and vaudeville.”
-Clifford Lee Johnson III, TDF Stages

And here's a little video snippet (sorry about the music).