Posing. Thinking about stuff. (2021)
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Hsieh is an Asian-American writer and director best known his feature film Drive All Night (2021) and various staged plays. Since 2009, he has written over 30 staged-plays and 3 feature length screenplays, wrote and directed a feature film, collaborated with theaters across the country, and was one of the most produced emerging playwrights in the Bay Area for the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons.
Drive All Night premiered at Cinequest Film Festival 2021 March 20 - 30 to positive reviews and praise. The film, described as a fever-dream neo-noir, follows Dave, a reclusive taxi driver, whose night takes a weird turn when he picks up a mysterious young woman named Cara. This is Hsieh’s first foray into feature filmmaking and stars Yutaka Takeuchi (Marvel’s The Defenders, East Side Sushi), Lexy Hammonds (Crazy Love) Sarah Dumont (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, CW’s The Royals) , and Johnny Gilligan (Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus).
Post Show Q&A at San Jose Rep’s Emerging Artist Lab (2012)
Notable achievements in theatre include his play Tangerina, which was a finalist for the 2015 Orange County New Play Festival, A Room with Modern Furniture, which won 3rd place at Playwrights CageMatch 2013 at Douglas Morrisson Theater, and Interstate, which had a sold-out run Off-Off Broadway at T. Schreiber Studio Theater in New York with additional productions in Chicago, Detroit, and Ohio. In 2018 his play Interval, Impulse was a finalist for Nylon Fusion Collective’s Best of TROU award alongside academy award winning screenwriter and playwright John Patrick Shanley and National Play Award Winner Don Nigro.
Hsieh has collaborated with Hollywood Fringe, NOLA Fringe, San Jose Rep’s Emerging Artist Lab, City Lights Theater Company, Asian American Theatre Company, Piney Fork, Revolution Theater, Drowning in Blue, San Francisco Olympians Festival, San Francisco Theater Pub, Gi60, Detroit Fringe Festival, AbbieFest, Fine Arts Association of Ohio, Stage Left, Gi60, New York University, Brooklyn College, University of California Irvine and more. He was a member of Asian American Theater Company’s New Works Incubator (2012-2013) and San Jose Rep’s Emerging Artist Lab (2012-2014) where he developed several of his plays. In 2013, he co-founded City Light Source New Play Development Series with playwright Lisa Kang.
On the set of Drive All Night with Lexy Hammonds, talking about Mortal Kombat (2019).
Hsieh’s feature length screenplays Super Turbo Overdrive and The Statue Garden have garnered awards from festivals around the world including Best Feature Screenplay RED International Screenplay Festival, Best Dark Comedy Screenplay Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Comedy Screenplay Prague International Monthly Film Festival, Best Comedy Screenplay Die Laughing Film Festival, Best Feature Screenplay Five Continents International Film Festival, and Honor Mention Best Feature Screenplay Festigious.
He is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a B.A. in English Literature. Besides film and theater, he plays CS:GO and maintains an impressive sneaker collection.