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Peter Parnell’s plays have been produced by Lincoln Center Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company, as well as at the Seattle Rep, the Mark Taper Forum, and Trinity Rep. He wrote the new book for the Broadway revival of Lerner and Lane’s On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, and his play QED starring Alan Alda as physicist Richard Feynman was present by the Lincoln Center Theater Company on Broadway. For Disney Theatrical, he wrote the book for the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and his two-part stage adaptation of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules won the American Theatre Critics Association Award. Parnell served as Vice-President of The Dramatists Guild from 2009-2015. In addition to other TV shows, Mr. Parnell was a co-producer for "The West Wing" (two Emmy Award® citations). His children’s book And Tango Makes Three, co-authored with his husband Justin Richardson, was an American Library Association Notable Book, a Henry Bergh Award winner, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and has been translated into a dozen languages. It has been on the ALA’s Top Ten List of Most Banned Books for many years since its

publication almost twenty years ago. Parnell is working with the Writers Guild Initiative to fight book bans, and is a member of Authors Against Book Bans.