Peter Ackerman began his varied career as an actor in the low budget movie
Astronomy of Errors (2000). He later went on to perform in the
Off-Broadway in
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and in
Visiting Mr. Green. For the stage, Ackerman's debut play, ''
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, was performed Off-Broadway in New York and at Soho Repertory Theatre in London. The play became an audio presentation for L.A. Theatre Works and appeared on member National Public Radio stations in North America. He also adapted it for DirecTV as a television series. He was commissioned by NPR to write another radio play, I’d Rather Eat Pants
, which was broadcast as a short serial. He also authored the play The Urn
and his revision of the musical The Pajama Game'' won the
Tony Award for
Best Revival of a Musical. As a writer he was hired by
20th Century Fox to work on the animated film
Ice Age where he became one of several screenwriters on the project. In 2002,
Ice Age was a box office success and received an
Academy Award nomination. Later he co-wrote the third
Ice Age movie,
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which was released in 2009. Following the
Ice Age movies, Ackerman was a writer and producer on the television series
The Americans on
FX and a writer and co-executive producer on
Amazing Stories on
Apple TV+. In May 2017, he was announced to write the screenplay of
The Angry Birds Movie 2 for
Sony Pictures. He has also written the children's books
The Lonely Typewriter and
The Lonely Phone Booth, which was produced as a musical at the Manhattan Children's Theatre. == References ==