Peter Levin

Birth Name:

Peter Levin

Profession

Director, Assistant director, Producer

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․"
Began his television career at WCBS in New York and later worked as an associate director for CBS
Started out as a Broadway actor who played Peter Van Daan in the 1955 original production of "The Diary of Anne Frank․"
Best known as the director of "Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story," "Queen Sized," and "Little Girl Fly Away․"
Started his directing career on the soap opera "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" in 1967
Started one of the first off-off-Broadway theaters, Hardware Poets Playhouse, with Audrey Davis and Jerry Bloedow

1973Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Achievement by Individuals in Daytime Drama:Nominated
1980Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series:Nominated
1987Bronze Wrangler - Factual Television Program:Winner
2004Christopher Award - Television & Cable:Winner

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