Peter is a critically-acclaimed composer/lyricist working in musical theater. He wrote lyrics and music and co-wrote the book for the hit Off-Broadway musical, The Hello Girls (4 Outer Critics Circle nominations, 3 Drama Desk nominations, Drama League nomination for Outstanding Production of a Musical, and an Off-Broadway Alliance nomination for Best New Musical.) The Hello Girls premiered in 2018 in NYC, released a cast album in 2019, and has had over fifty productions across the USA and around the world.
Prior to that, Mills wrote lyrics for The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse, October 2017, dir. John Rando.) As a composer/lyricist, his other shows include Illyria, The Flood, The Underclassman, and Golden Boy Of The Blue Ridge.
He received the 2010 Kleban Prize for lyrics, the 2007 Fred Ebb Award for emerging songwriters, the 2011 Cole Porter Award, 2006 Drama Desk Award nominations for his show The Pursuit Of Persephone (Best Music and Best Orchestrations), the 2003 Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and a 2002 grant from the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation.
He earned his MFA at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, and now teaches at the program and at Princeton University.