Peter Carlaftes

PETER CARLAFTES is a New York-based performance artist, playwright, fiction author, actor, and poet. He is co-director and acquisitions editor for Three Rooms Press, a fierce, New York-based independent publisher inspired by Dada, punk and passion. Most recently, he edited the anthology THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: Nineteen Tales of White House Noir. He is co-editor of the annual Dada writing and art journal, MAINTENANT and the annual New York-based short story collection, HAVE A NYC.

Additionally, Carlaftes is the author of A YEAR ON FACEBOOK (humor), DRUNKYARD DOG, I FOLD WITH THE HAND I WAS DEALT (poetry), TRIUMPH FOR RENT: Three Plays, and TEATROPHY: Three More Plays. He is the author of twelve plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger,” the musical comedy “Dueling Karaoke,” and his original celebrity rehab center spoof, “Spin-Dry.” He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including his comic solo performance piece, “Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well,” as well as “Barefoot in the Park” and Stephen Adly Guirgis' “Den of Thieves.” He lives in New York City.