Biography

Early feature film comedy romp transformed into cult favorite via regular late night screenings on Comedy Central, "Girlfriend from Hell" was adapted into an Off-Broadway musical parody by New York stage director, and avid fan of the film, Sean Matthew Whiteford.

In the late 90s, Peterson worked as a bodyguard driving private dancers to late-night appointments throughout Los Angeles. That experience eventually became, "Have Love, Will Travel", a film he wrote and directed chronicling his dark journey into a disturbing and violent world inside the city's underground mobile sex trade. The film was invited by Trevor Groth (Director of Programming Sundance Film Festival) and Mike Plante (Programmer Sundance Film Festival) to world premiere at their own CineVegas Film Festival.

Worked part time as Quentin Tarantino's script typist.

Peterson's independent film, "Backroad Motel", a nine story anthology featuring various dregs, druggies, and the doomed inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66, caught the attention of Jonathan Taplin, producer of, among other films, Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets". Taplin transformed "Backroad Motel" into one of the Internets first "webisodes" by premiering on his own technologically groundbreaking Video on Demand website, Intertainer.

From a long line of Downtown Los Angeles entertainers dating back to the 1800's. In the early 1900's, his Grandmother, Juanita Larieux, was already an accomplished dancer by the time she was 4 years old, performing at local city center fiestas. Eventually, as a young woman during the depression, she found herself dancing at "scandalous" downtown LA burlesque shows to make ends meet.