Peter Mills received the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, 2005 Drama Desk Award nominations for his show THE PURSUIT OF PERSEPHONE (Best Music and Best Orchestrations), the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation.

This past year he wrote two new musicals: THE ROCKAE, a rock musical based on The Bacchae, and HONOR, an adaptation of As You Like It set in feudal Japan. He wrote lyrics for the new musical comedy, IRON CURTAIN. Other recent projects include LONELY RHYMES (a comic song cycle), THE ALCHEMISTS, ILLYRIA (a musical adaptation of Twelfth Night, which had its regional premiere at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Fall 2004, with a cast album released in April 2005) and THE TAXI CABARET (published by Samuel French in Fall 2004).

With Cara Reichel, he wrote THE FLOOD, which was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop (2001). MARCO POLO, written with composer Deborah Abramson, was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop in 2000, and Peter and Deborah were chosen as 2000-01 Dramatists Guild Fellows.

Peter holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts and a degree in English/Dramatic Literature from Princeton University. He is a founding member of Prospect Theater Company.