Peter Basch

Writer

pmb41@columbia.edu

Off Broadway

• Mom & Barrage -- written with Ellen Sandler, Ark Theatre Company at the Attic, December 2010
• Art Has Nothing to Tell Us About Science -- Commissioned for the First Light festival, produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for Science and Technology
• Where's Grivas? -- Gilgamesh Theater Company, November 1998
• English (It's Where the Words Are) -- Published by Smith & Kraus; Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon '96 (see New York Times review); Aspen Comedy Festival '97; Bumbershoot Festival '97 (see Seattle Times review); HBO New Writer's Project

Television

• Naked Mole Rats -- Optioned by Klasky/Csupo
• Basch's Lament -- On the Edge, an ABC late night comedy pilot

Sketch Comedy

• Auditions for the Legion of Superheroes -- (written with Mike Eisenberg) Manhattan Punch Line's Punch Line Players and Ensemble Studio Theatre's Hell's Kitchen Sink
• Mr. Ed Is Hamlet -- (written with Mike Eisenberg) E.S.T.'s Hell's Kitchen Sink
• The Moral of the Story of the Wizard of Oz -- E.S.T.'s Hell's Kitchen Sink

Other Stuff

• Primates -- Winner in the 1995 HBO New Writers Project
• The Coven -- Finalist in the 1994 HBO New Writers Project and produced in October 1995 by Oklahoma City Community College
• New York Press First Person column
• Buffalo Hunters -- (written with Brad Bellamy) E.S.T.'s Summer Conference and Octoberfest
• Naked Mole Rats -- E.S.T.'s Summer Conference

Education & Languages

• Columbia College, BA Physics (major) & Medieval Studies (minor)
• University of California, Berkeley, ND Physics
• Lycee Francais de New-York