Suburban Fantasy

Peter Mancuso is a filmmaker and producer from Rhode Island currently based in Jackson Heights, NY. After writing and directing several short plays in high school, he moved to New York and received his BFA in Film & Television from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, with minors in both Producing and Business. While writing and directing his own films, he spent much of his time in college producing other students' projects totaling about a dozen in just under two years. His education and experience culminated with his thesis film "Suburban Fantasy," a semi-autobiographical film about leaving home to follow your dreams.

Since graduation, Mancuso's career experiences have run the gamut of the industry. Before the pandemic, Mancuso worked as an intern at Scott Rudin Productions while simultaneously working as an Assistant Production Coordinator for Simba Productions, a small video service production company. In the past year, Mancuso has shifted to focusing more on script consultation with clients like writer/director Elegance Bratton and producer Valerie Steinberg. For most of 2023, he served as the Video Production Manager for Cicatelli Associates, Inc., a non-profit that creates instructional material for the public health workforce. His main role was project management, coordinating video projects between funders like the Center for Disease Control, external video vendors, and internal interdepartmental project teams.

In 2021, Mancuso founded The New Artist Workshop, an independent development and production company built for the changing landscapes of the arts and entertainment industries. Providing a legal framework to continue his consultation work and commercial video production, it has also allowed him develop and produce not only his own projects but that of other rising artists across various mediums looking for a collaborator to guide them and help them to manifest their vision.