Peter Katona

Peter Katona is an actor who trained at the Yale School of Drama, earning an MFA in Acting and an Oliver Thorndike award. A Fox Foundation Fellowship Grant funded research into ancient Italian rapier fencing and into Peking Opera martial arts, sword dancing and acrobatics. In New York he played Sebastian in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Laertes in Hamlet at The Shakespeare Theatre, and George in Our Town at the Dallas Theater Center, and appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in Cyrano De Bergerac alongside Placido Domingo. He co-wrote, produced and starred in Big Trouble in Little Hazzard!, a hit at the New York City Fringe Festival, then moved to Los Angeles to work in film, television, commercials, voice-over and print. His screen work included a guest role on Major Crimes, an appearance on Grey's Anatomy and a leading part in LA Apocalypse (2014), and he appeared in Build, staged at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.