Peter van de Witte (1975) is a director, composer, writer and actor. He graduated from the Academie voor Kleinkunst in Amsterdam in 1999 with a specialization in composition and text writing.

After graduating, Peter and his classmate Bas Hoeflaak started the duo Droog Brood with whom he won the Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival in 2000 and subsequently made 8 theater performances.

As a composer, Peter worked for Alex Klaasen, Paul de Leeuw, Wende Snijders and Michiel Romeijn, among others. Furthermore, Peter wrote a number of children’s musicals, including PLUK VAN DE PETTEFLET, PIPPI LANGKOUS, DOLFJE WEERWOLFJE, and provided music for a number of theater shows such as WATSKEBURT?!, SHOWPONIES, NOOB SPEELT NOOB.

Peter wrote a number of plays; FLYSK for Bellevue Lunchtheater and EXPATS for Het Toneel Speelt. Peter also works as a theater director. He directed the musicals WATSKEBURT?! by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, MARVELLOUS, shows by, among others, Alex Ploeg, Vrijdag & Sandifort, Isabelle Kafando, and n00b, as well as the theater shows of Rundfunk. In addition, he directed the television series RUNDFUNK: DUCO & ROY (co-directed with Tom van Kalmthout & Yannick van de Velde).

As an actor, Peter appeared in, among others, DE GROTE ZWAEN by Max Porcelijn and DAMES4 by Maurice Trouwborst.