Peter Wisan
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Peter Wisan is a proud California native, having lived up and down the Golden Coast before calling Los Angeles home. Peter's life reads like a vibrant anthology of experiences and skill-gathering. In a former life, he attended University of California, San Diego, where he was a pre-med student, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology.
After graduating and seeing the world, Peter worked as a legal assistant in an environmental-protection law firm that took a page from Mister Smith Goes to Washington, specializing in championing lost causes. During this time, he took up screenwriting, and many of his works received acclaim in competitions and option deals.
Peter fulfilled a childhood dream by commissioning as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in 2012. He deployed overseas from 2014 to 2015, eventually separating from service honorably after attaining the rank of Captain. While deployed, he was first introduced to the plight of human trafficking victims, and, upon his Marine Corps contract expiring in 2016, Peter wrote and directed an acclaimed documentary exposing the underground sex trafficking industry in Southern California.
From there, he attended a Forbes top-50 worldwide school in Belgium and graduated with a Master in Western Literature, magna cum laude. Peter made the most of this period by deepening his knowledge of autodidactic foreign languages, of which he is conversational in Spanish, French, and Italian, as well as skilled in Dutch and German.
Peter's pluriform experiences and life events unify to strengthen his storytelling in a variety of ways: his Bachelor in Human Biology adds realism to any scientific aspects in his scripts, his time in the Marine Corps underscores the importance of tension and attention to detail, and the Master degree gives him the literary background to build worlds and craft memorable characters.
After graduating and seeing the world, Peter worked as a legal assistant in an environmental-protection law firm that took a page from Mister Smith Goes to Washington, specializing in championing lost causes. During this time, he took up screenwriting, and many of his works received acclaim in competitions and option deals.
Peter fulfilled a childhood dream by commissioning as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in 2012. He deployed overseas from 2014 to 2015, eventually separating from service honorably after attaining the rank of Captain. While deployed, he was first introduced to the plight of human trafficking victims, and, upon his Marine Corps contract expiring in 2016, Peter wrote and directed an acclaimed documentary exposing the underground sex trafficking industry in Southern California.
From there, he attended a Forbes top-50 worldwide school in Belgium and graduated with a Master in Western Literature, magna cum laude. Peter made the most of this period by deepening his knowledge of autodidactic foreign languages, of which he is conversational in Spanish, French, and Italian, as well as skilled in Dutch and German.
Peter's pluriform experiences and life events unify to strengthen his storytelling in a variety of ways: his Bachelor in Human Biology adds realism to any scientific aspects in his scripts, his time in the Marine Corps underscores the importance of tension and attention to detail, and the Master degree gives him the literary background to build worlds and craft memorable characters.
