Peter Levin Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Christopher Award for Television & Cable for "Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story" in 2004
• Won a Western Heritage Award for Factual Television Program for "Houston: The Legend of Texas" in 1987
• Studied theater at Carnegie Mellon University and with Lee Strasberg
• Appeared in several Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "As You Like It․"
• Started out as a Broadway actor who played Peter Van Daan in the 1955 original production of "The Diary of Anne Frank․"
• Began his television career at WCBS in New York and later worked as an associate director for CBS
• Best known as the director of "Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story," "Queen Sized," and "Little Girl Fly Away․"
• Started one of the first off-off-Broadway theaters, Hardware Poets Playhouse, with Audrey Davis and Jerry Bloedow
• Started his directing career on the soap opera "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" in 1967