Peter Mattei(I)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Peter Mattei is an award-winning playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and television series creator. His critically-acclaimed one-hour series Outsiders (Hulu) was among the top-rated cable series in 2016/17. He has also written original pilots for HBO, Fox, A&E, CBS and ABC and created/directed/starred in an original documentary series for AMC.
In 2023 Mattei wrote/directed/produced the acclaimed Audible Original drama Sonarius: the Mysteries of M. He also created the disability podcast Making The Invisible Visible with Austin Tam.
Mattei was born into a working-class family in Missouri. After graduating from Brown and the Yale School of Drama, he was a founding member of the Obie-winning Cucaracha Theatre in New York, where he wrote and directed several critically-lauded plays that were then produced in theaters around the country. He was awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and the Royal Court Theatre in London and received commissions from the Mark Taper Forum and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco before turning to writing/directing film and TV.
His Gotham Award-nominated microbudget feature Love in the Time of Money was developed at the Sundance Directors Lab, produced by Robert Redford, premiered at Sundance in 2002 and was bought by Miramax.
As a novelist, Mattei's The Deep Whatsis was called a "red hot debut" by Publishers Weekly and published in six languages and nine countries in 2014. ("Brilliant satire of consumerism, popular culture, hipsters, Brooklyn, music and the advertising world: there hasn't been anything that so sharply captures and skewers the current zeitgeist since American Psycho and Fight Club." -Goodreads)
As a commercial director, Mattei has worked for clients such as Sony Music, Puma, and Playstation; his short docs on rappers Ca$hOut and Dyme-A-Duzin won Clio Awards in 2015. His photographs and art videos have been seen at Fotofest in Houston, in a solo show at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York, and at the Parlour Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
More recently, Mattei has developed television series for Fox/20th via Lee Daniels Entertainment, for Topic Studios, and is developing international TV series set in Rome and Berlin. He also has features in development with producers of Mulholland Drive and other renowned films.
His experimental feature film The End of Nowhere is currently in post-production.
In 2023 Mattei wrote/directed/produced the acclaimed Audible Original drama Sonarius: the Mysteries of M. He also created the disability podcast Making The Invisible Visible with Austin Tam.
Mattei was born into a working-class family in Missouri. After graduating from Brown and the Yale School of Drama, he was a founding member of the Obie-winning Cucaracha Theatre in New York, where he wrote and directed several critically-lauded plays that were then produced in theaters around the country. He was awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and the Royal Court Theatre in London and received commissions from the Mark Taper Forum and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco before turning to writing/directing film and TV.
His Gotham Award-nominated microbudget feature Love in the Time of Money was developed at the Sundance Directors Lab, produced by Robert Redford, premiered at Sundance in 2002 and was bought by Miramax.
As a novelist, Mattei's The Deep Whatsis was called a "red hot debut" by Publishers Weekly and published in six languages and nine countries in 2014. ("Brilliant satire of consumerism, popular culture, hipsters, Brooklyn, music and the advertising world: there hasn't been anything that so sharply captures and skewers the current zeitgeist since American Psycho and Fight Club." -Goodreads)
As a commercial director, Mattei has worked for clients such as Sony Music, Puma, and Playstation; his short docs on rappers Ca$hOut and Dyme-A-Duzin won Clio Awards in 2015. His photographs and art videos have been seen at Fotofest in Houston, in a solo show at the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York, and at the Parlour Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
More recently, Mattei has developed television series for Fox/20th via Lee Daniels Entertainment, for Topic Studios, and is developing international TV series set in Rome and Berlin. He also has features in development with producers of Mulholland Drive and other renowned films.
His experimental feature film The End of Nowhere is currently in post-production.
