The Petersons: In the Bleak Mid-Winter

THE PETERSONS are a sextet of actor/musican/comedians who toss original rock tunes into a serialized comedy about a group of misfits from upstate New York who share a house and a stage. The band has performed for years around New York City at venues like Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, Caroline’s on Broadway, the Bottom Line and 54 Below.

Because he enjoys making money, Adam Stein (Mr. Peterson) currently lives in Los Angeles and writes for the television. He’s appeared in Wait Until Dark by Jeffrey Hatcher at the Geffen Playhouse opposite the exceedingly game Ms. Alison Pill, on Broadway in The Lion King, and at regional theaters around the country, including Steppenwolf, the Old Globe, the Guthrie, the McCarter, and five summers at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where 24 years ago he met… Keira Naughton (Mrs. Peterson), who recently appeared in These Paper Bullets! at the Atlantic Theater Company and Geffen Playhouse and in the premiere of Suzanne Heathcote's I Saw My Neighbor On The Train and I Didn't Even Smile with New Neighborhood at the Berkshire Theatre Group. She is a founding member of New Neighborhood. Matthew Saldivar (Julio de los Flacos) just finished performing in Important Hats of the Twentieth Century at Manhattan Theatre Club. He appeared as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher, in James Lapine’s Act One at Lincoln Center Theater, and he played someone called Johnny Sandwich in the critically acclaimed Honeymoon in Vegas on Broadway. Pete Simpson (Pete Petersen) tours the world with downtown masterminds like Richard Maxwell, Young Jean Lee, the Wooster Group and Blue Man Group, and starred last fall in the controversial Straight White Men at The Public Theater. Rick Holmes (Rick)—who played Lord Astor in Peter and the Starcatcher, as well as principal roles in Spamalot, The Visit and many more—is currently on the Great White Way in Matilda. Evan Robertson (Father Tom) pretentiously went to Yale, then Juilliard, and is—by far—the finest musician in the band.


Every Petersonic theatrical experience is brand new and unpredictable...with surprise celebrity cameos! Previous guests include Michael C. Hall, Paul Newman, Tony Danza, Michael Emerson, James Naughton, Gavin Degraw, John Cameron Mitchell, Mila Kunis, and many, many others. We won’t tell you who’s in store for the next show…you’ll just have to come to find out!