Peter Gathings Bunche's biography:
Born with a passion for radio and Broadway theater, Peter attended Boston's prestigious Emerson College with dreams of becoming a great American playwright or a renowned radio disc jockey. He not only became a disc jockey but also a producer and program director of WERS. His work caught the attention of Broadway figures, including Richard Wesley, Charles Fuller, Ed Bullins, Garland Lee Thompson, and Woodie King.
Peter continued his education at Hunter College, studying under the late Tony-winning director, Lloyd Richards. As a member of writing groups at the Negro Ensemble Company, New Federal Theater, and Frank Silvera's Writing Workshop, Mr. Bunche directed many Off-off Broadway staged play readings, working with notable actors such as Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Townsend, Bill Cobbs, Richard Gant, Reginald Vel Johnson, the late Adolph Caesar, and Miguel Pinero.
As a creator of moving pictures, Peter Bunche founded Furious Films, the first African-American owned music video company in American music history. His landmark clips for Cameo, Whodini, Branford Marsalis, Miles Davis, Full Force, Mtume, Big Audio Dynamite, and Def Leppard established him as a major player in the music industry.
Peter Bunche's credits also include producing and directing the first Rap Music Award Show in industry history - Urban Teen Music Awards from the Apollo Theater in 1989. He served as a producer and consultant with EMCI, the top event and entertainment-marketing firm in the world, and helped mastermind and create the now famous Fox Network Superbowl Halftime Counter program show.
In addition to his work in music and television, Peter Bunche has written and directed several films, including "The Jacket," which garnered a Short Film Oscar Nomination, and "Butter" for HBO. He has also written, directed, and co-produced "Champions," a stylized, low-budget, cult, fight film set in the world of Ultimate Fighting.
Peter Bunche is currently attached to direct a remake of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning, "Glengarry Glen Ross" for his own company, and is developing several other projects, including a new political/sexual thriller, "The Deportables" series pilot for HBO, and the art world thriller, "Cold Cruel World" as a major video game and feature film.
