Peter Ekstrom
Peter Ekstrom graduated from Antioch College in 1973 and in 1978 traveled down the Mississippi River on a raft with Otrabanda Theatre Company, stopping in two dozen towns from St. Louis to New Orleans... Read more
Peter Ekstrom graduated from Antioch College in 1973 and in 1978 traveled down the Mississippi River on a raft with Otrabanda Theatre Company, stopping in two dozen towns from St. Louis to New Orleans to perform a vaudeville show in a circus tent. His professional career began when Jon Jory of Actors Theatre of Louisville hired him to write music and lyrics to a satirical revue in the Humana Festival of New American Plays. His Matrimonium and Doctors and Diseases (in which he also performed) followed in the next two Festivals. In 1981, he wrote a musical adaption of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi which ran at Actors Theatre of Louisville every Christmastime for 17 consecutive years as well as many regional and amateur theatres across the country. Doctors and Diseases was revived by Barter Theatre in Virginia in 1997 and subsequently moved to off-Broadway.