create pg Peter Frisch Pete Frisch Peter Frisch is an American TV and theatre producer and director He received his M F A in stage direction from Carnegie Mellon As a nationally recognized teacher and coach Peter has held faculty posts at Carnegie The Juilliard School Harvard University Boston University Cal Arts and UCLA He has taught and coached professional actors and directors in New York and Los Angeles over the last thirty years Prior to coming to Santa Barbara Frisch served as Producer on The Young and The Restless for CBS Daytime He came to the show directly from Pittsburgh and a six year stint as Head of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University s prestigious School of Drama where he also taught and directed for the mainstage Moonlighting he also directed seventeen events for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra working with musicians such as Mariss Jansons Marvin Hamlisch and Rolando Villazon During the past 35 years Peter has directed over 160 productions in the New York and regional theatre including a full range of classic and contemporary plays cabaret and opera He has been Producing Director of the Hyde Park Festival Theatre NY Resident Director with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Artistic Director of American Playwrights Theatre in Washington D C Peter received a Joseph Jefferson Award for the Chicago premiere of American Dreams co authored with Studs Terkel and the Outer Circle Award for My Papa s Wine on New York s Theatre Row At American Playwrights Theatre his collaboration with Larry L King led to a 1988 Helen Hayes Award for The Night Hank Williams Died Also at APT he won an inaugural Kennedy Center American Express Grant for his production of Speaking In Tongues about controversial film director Pier Paolo Pasolini Previously in Los Angeles Peter served as a Producer on Fox Network s Tribes Frisch has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Awards and served as a board member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation He is an enthusiastic amateur musician and has been published in a variety of journals from Stereo Review to The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs