Pete Barry is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director and musician. He is a co-founder of the Porch Room, an independent film and theatre production company, and has produced and directed several collections of short plays, including Five Cornered Thinking at the New York Comedy Club and Burt Reynolds Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and Other Paid Programming in the 2001 New York Fringe Festival. He shared the 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play for Accidents Happen.

Pete lives in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania with his wife Jean and his daughters Lia and Violet.