Name: Pete Barry (Level 5)
Join Date: 2/15/2008 7:37 PM
Last Active: Yesterday 10:10 AM
Forum Posts: 178Contests Entered: 23
Votes Received: 887
Entries Reviewed: 956
Location: Easton, PA
Web Site: www.porchroom.comBiography: Pete Barry is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, actor, director and musician. His short plays have been published in numerous collections, including "Accidents Happen" and Eric Lane's anthology "Shorter, Faster, Funnier".
His screenplay “10 Crimes in 2 Hours” was a finalist in the 13th Annual Writers Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. His short play “Drop” was a winner in the 34th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, and was published by Samuel French in 2010. Other short plays, including “Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second” and “The Banderscott” have also been selected for performance by Samuel French.
He is a cofounder of the Porch Room, a film and theater production company. With the Porch Room he has produced and directed several collections of short plays, including "Five Cornered Thinking" at the New York Comedy Club and "Burt Reynold's Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and Other Paid Programming" in the 2001 New York Fringe Festival. A collection including four of his short plays, “Accidents Happen”, won the 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play.
Pete lives in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania with his wife Jean and his daughters Lia and Violet.
Title  | Date | Contest | Type | Place | |
| 6:17 to Boston | Apr. 2008 | The Sound of Silence | Short | | |
| Berenice | May. 2008 | Poetic License | Short | Honorable Mention | |
| Cameo | Apr. 2010 | Feature ~ Round 2 of 3: Ten Pages | 10 | Honorable Mention | |
| Cameo | Aug. 2010 | Feature ~ Round 3 of 3: Script | Feature | Second Place | |
| Cameo | Jan. 2010 | Feature ~ Round 1 of 3: Logline | Logline | Honorable Mention | |
| Cheater | Feb. 2013 | Countdown | Short | Second Place | |
| Conference Call | May. 2012 | Found Footage | Short | | |
| Erase | Jan. 2012 | Feature ~ Round 1 of 3: Logline | Logline | | |
| Focus | Nov. 2011 | Short Film | Film | First Place | |
| Memory | Mar. 2012 | Two Strangers | Short | | |
| Mousetrap | Sep. 2010 | Monster Vision | Short | | |
| Projection | Jun. 2011 | Even More of Less is More | Short | | |
| Speaking Terms | Mar. 2013 | Three Words Only | Short | First Place | |
| Spike Train | Feb. 2010 | Ace, Baby, Honey, Jack, & Spike | Short | | |
| Suck | Jun. 2012 | Still More of Less is More | Short | Honorable Mention | |
| The Cosmic | Jan. 2009 | Feature ~ Round 1 of 3: Logline | Logline | Honorable Mention | |
| The Cosmic | Aug. 2009 | Feature ~ Round 3 of 3: Script | Feature | | |
| The Cosmic | Apr. 2009 | Feature ~ Round 2 of 3: Ten Pages | 10 | Honorable Mention | |
| The Reductionist | Apr. 2011 | Feature ~ Round 2 of 3: Ten Pages | 10 | First Place | |
| The Reductionist | Jan. 2011 | Feature ~ Round 1 of 3: Logline | Logline | Second Place | |
| The Reductionist | Aug. 2011 | Feature ~ Round 3 of 3: Script | Feature | First Place | |