Tales from the Vienna Woods
In 1986 Peil starred in Michel Tremblay's play "The Impromptu of Outremont" at the Lincoln Theater on the campus of the University of Hartford. She starred in the 1987 Off-Broadway musical "Birds of Paradise". In 1988 she portrayed Desiree Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim’s "A Little Night Music" with the Opera Ensemble of New York. In 1989 she performed in William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" at The Public Theater under the direction of JoAnne Akalaitis. She portrayed President J.F.K.'s secretary, a central character in the musical, in Michael John LaChiusa's "Over Texas" with the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1991. That same year she starred in Ödön von Horváth's "Tales from the Vienna Woods" at the Actors Theater of Louisville.