Peter Hardy has been working as an actor, director and writer, based in Atlanta, for over 30 years. His play MYSTERIOUS CONNECTIONS was chosen for development at the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference, and he has won playwriting awards from the Festival of Southern Theatre, At Rise Magazine and the New Southern Theatre Festival. He has had several short stories published and is the Founding Artistic Director of the Essential Theatre, a company dedicated to supporting and producing new work by Georgia playwrights.