Peter Rini
Peter Rini is happy to be making his Two River Theater debut with Lives of Reason. His Broadway credits include the original company of Neil Simon’s Proposals, Arthur Miller’s revival of A View from the Bridge, and Tartuffe: Born Again. Peter also appeared on the first national tour of South Pacific, directed by Bart Sher. Off Broadway: The Talls (Second Stage Uptown); The Old Boy (Keen Company); Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Promenade); The Merchant of Venice (New York Shakespeare Festival); Somewhere in the Pacific (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Hartford Stage and Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.), An Enemy of the People and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare Theater, D.C.); Wait Until Dark (Arizona Theatre Company, Geva); Heaven Can Wait (Westport Country Playhouse); Robbers and Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Long Wharf Theatre, Pittsburgh Public); The Provoked Wife (A.R.T. in Cambridge); Glengarry Glen Ross (Dallas Theater Center); Cyrano (Barrington Stage Company). Peter has also performed in several plays at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. On television Peter appears as Jason Figueroa on Orange Is the New Black and as Arthur Miller in Smash. Other recent television includes The Mysteries of Laura, Person of Interest and Blue Bloods. Peter also makes a cameo appearance in the Lifetime made-for-television movie Killing Kennedy commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Peter is a graduate of the Graduate Acting Program at Tisch School of the Arts and is also a Fox Fellowship recipient.