Peter Picard
Shotgun Productions & Founder, Global Arts Initiative

Mr. Picard is a graduate of Harvard University where he majored in English and American Literature. After graduating from The Neighborhood Playhouse in 1999, he began an acting career while also enlisting in several family businesses. In 2001, he became director of Fast Forest International/Pacific Forest Group, two inter-related companies that process old growth trees in the Russian Far East into lumber and other wood products, exporting to Asia, the US, and Canada. In 2006, he was elected Chairman of the Board. On more artistic fronts, Mr. Picard became a partner of JD Enterprises in 2004, owning two restaurant/music venues in Burlington, VT: Nectars and Metronome. In 2006, he produced the feature film, Brutal Massacre, A Comedy. In 2007, just prior to co-producing the off-Broadway play, The Chaos Theories, to sold-out audiences in New York City, he became a partner in a new production company, Gang of Five Productions.  GOF’s first production, Red Dog Howls, starring Kathleen Chalfont, opened in Los Angeles in the spring of 2008 and is under consideration for a Broadway run. Mr. Picard is Vice President of The Picard Family Foundation, supporting the arts as well as charities for children both here and abroad.