Peter Masterson Biography

after years as an actor on Broadway and film, co-wrote and directed the original Broadway and London productions of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, winning the 1978 Drama Desk Award for Best Director and receiving Tony nominations for both Director and Libretto.  Also on Broadway, he co-wrote and co-directed The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public in 1994.  Off-Broadway: The Last of the Knucklemen (1981), The Cover of Life (1994)  and The Young Man from Atlanta (1995), which received a Pulitzer Prize.  In the last several years he has directed nine feature films, including the Academy award-winning The Trip to Bountiful as well as Full Moon in Blue Water, Convicts and The Only Thrill.