Peter Mattei

Peter Mattei is an award-winning playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and cable television series creator/showrunner. His critically-acclaimed one-hour series Outsiders (Sony/WGN/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 an original documentary series for AMC. Mattei was born into a working-class immigrant family in Ferguson, 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. In the late 90s, Mattei worked for tech startups in New York, creating original content for the likes of Audible and Razorfish; he created the Razorfish Subnetwork, which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He was also the writer of MTV's first video game, Club Dead. 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. Recently, Mattei developed television series for Fox/20th via Lee Daniels Entertainment, for Topic Studios (Leave No Trace, Spotlight), is EP on a series in development for NBC, and he is set to direct an original indie sci fi feature I, REDEEMER, in 2021.