Screening Series
Feature Film:
Peter Gerety in Working Man
A screening and celebration of a 60-year career in theater and film
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 – 7:00 p.m.
Macauley Honors College, 35 West 67th Street
2nd Floor Screening Room
Free Admission, Open to the Public
The Actors Center hosts a screening and celebration of Peter Gerety’s 60-year career in theater and film on Tuesday, June 11th at 7:00pm at Macaulay Honors College. The event will feature a screening of the 2019 independent film, Working Man, starring Peter, followed by a conversation about Peter’s experiences across six decades as an actor. Peter has been a member of The Actors Center’s Resident Company for nearly 25 years. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. Wine and beverages will be served.
Working Man, the debut film from writer/director Robert Jury, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2019 and won Best Narrative Feature at the Savannah and Kansas City Film Festivals. The film also stars Talia Shire and Billy Brown.
“This might be a career-best performance, and it’s almost entirely internal, expecting you to guess what the character is thinking and feeling based on how [Gerety] looks at people, or looks away from them. A good movie with a big heart.
— RogerEbert.com
“Gerety is simply superb, saying more with one facial expression than many actors can do with 20 pages of dialogue.”
— Deadline
“Quietly magnificent and deeply resonant. With every line reading, every weary sigh, every subtle change in expression, Gerety delivers a performance that is simply great.”
— Chicago Sun-Times
“Watching Gerety delineate this taciturn man’s actions and feelings, one small detail at a time, the conventions become somehow real… Now there’s an actor who knows how to do a little while conveying a hell of a lot.”
— Chicago Tribune
About the Film
When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing, and against the advice and pleas of his loving wife, Iola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor, Walter Brewer, in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them—and as their former corporate bosses strategize how to implode this unexpected movement—Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.
About Peter Gerety
Peter began acting while a student at Boston University. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, where he appeared in over 125 productions. Peter is a veteran of stage, screen and television. He has appeared on Broadway to critical acclaim in Conversations with My Father, Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse, Lucky Guy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Never Gonna Dance, and Macbeth, in addition to working regularly off-broadway and regionally.
He has appeared in over 100 roles on film and television, working with directors Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Clint Eastwood, Mike Nichols, Michael Mann, Stephen Gaghan, James Ivory, Ido Mizrahy, and Woody Allen, as well as appearing in Sneaky Pete, The Wire, Homicide, The Girl from Plainville, Ray Donovan, City on a Hill, Public Morals, Mercy Street, The Good Wife, and Brothers & Sisters, among many others.