Peter started out as a playwright and earned his MA at Boston University and his MFA from UCLA. His plays have been produced at a wide range of theaters and venues including Boston Playwrights Theater, Francis Ford Coppola’s One Act Festival, Kennedy Center Festival, Oakland's Black Box Theater and Stanford University. He has been published in MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS OF COLOR (Roberta Uno, editor).

In early 2000, he began to transition to writing screenplays by working with Justin Lin’s production company (FAST FIVE; BETTER LUCK TOMORROW). Since then, his screenplays have been receiving a wide variety of accolades from many contests and festivals including Slamdance, Austin Film Festival, Final Draft’s Big Break and Nicholls. ​

His recent screenplay, LINK, has made it onto Coverfly's Red List and it was listed in the top 6 percent out of over 11,000 short film screenplays. Link has received accolades and awards from the following festivals: Hollyshorts, Austin Film Festival, Outstanding Screenplays, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, WeScreenplay Shorts, New York International Screenplay Awards, Top Shorts Film Festival and many more.

In addition to screenwriting, Peter has been a drama and film teacher for twenty years and has worked with youth from the inner city to the suburbs. He currently teaches filmmaking at The Athenian School. He is also the founder of the film production company, Storytelling for the Screen LLC.