Name Brian Peterson Role Screenwriter | Movies But I'm a Cheerleader Shows Smallville | |
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Occupation screenwriter, television producer Education University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts Similar People Jamie Babbit, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel | ||
Brian Wayne Peterson (born c. 1971/1972) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He wrote the script for 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader and has worked on many episodes of Smallville as writer and producer since 2002.
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Peterson received a Master of Fine Arts in writing for screen and television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1997.
Shortly after his graduation, Jamie Babbit, the director for But I'm a Cheerleader, asked Peterson to write a script for her film after reading a story he had written about a gay cowboy. Peterson used his own personal experiences to help him write the story, which is about a group of teenagers who attend conversion therapy camp. He is gay himself, and had had some experience of conversion therapy while working at a prison clinic for sex offenders. In 1999, Variety named him one of "10 Screenwriters to Watch".