Peter M. Floyd, a New Hampshire native, began his playwriting career with the short play "The Little Death," which won the Audience Choice award for best play at the Playwrights' Platform Festival in 2006. Other short plays include "Objective," "Big Eddie," "The Green Room," "Perspective," and "Love, Billy Bunny." Peter received his MFA in playwriting from Boston University, where he developed his first full-length play, Absence. Absence was co-winner of the Kennedy Center's Jean Kennedy Smith Award and a finalist for the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition. It has had readings at the Lark Play Development Center in New York, the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and Midtown Direct Rep in South Orange, New Jersey, featuring Olympia Dukakis. Its first full production was at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in February 2014, and was nominated for the Elliot Norton Award for best new script. In July 2012, The Centipede King was accepted for development at the MFA Playwrights' Workshop held at the Kennedy Center; in December, 2012, it was presented as a staged reading in Boston by the Vagabond Theatre Group. Peter was selected as one of four playwrights into the New Repertory Theatre's 2012-13 New Voices program for developing playwrights, and his latest play, Protocol, had a reading at the New Rep in May 2013.