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name: "Brian Wayne Peterson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-peterson"
fi1m_id: "brian-peterson"
imdb_id: "nm0677048"
tmdb_id: 1237421
wikidata_id: "Q4965591"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 September 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:45:49.804953+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Brian Wayne Peterson

## Identity

Brian Wayne Peterson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-peterson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-peterson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0677048
- **TMDB ID:** 1237421
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4965591
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wayne_Peterson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4965591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677048/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237421

Director. Born 27 September 1970 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 September 1970, United States
- **Also known as:** Brian Peterson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wayne_Peterson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4965591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0677048/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1237421

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Smallville*](https://film.one/tv/smallville.md) (66)

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## Biography

Brian Wayne Peterson is an American screenwriter and television producer. He wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film *But I'm a Cheerleader* and joined the writing staff of *Smallville* in 2002. He contributed numerous episodes as writer and story editor, rose through the producing ranks to executive producer and co-showrunner with Kelly Souders for the final three seasons, and directed the episode "Charade".

Peterson earned an MFA in writing for screen and television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1997, where he met his frequent collaborator Kelly Souders. In 1999, *Variety* named him one of its 10 Screenwriters to Watch. He has also written episodes for *Political Animals* (2012) and *Under the Dome* (2014), and served as showrunner on *The Hot Zone* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, smallville.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Smallville* (2001), Fi1m 66, Teleplay, Story, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/smallville.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hot Zone* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Teleplay, Creator
- *Genius* (2017), series, Consulting Producer
- *Under the Dome* (2013), series, Writer
- *Political Animals* (2012), series, Writer
- *Smallville* (2001), series, Writer, Supervising Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Teleplay, Story, Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/smallville.md)
- *But I'm a Cheerleader* (2000), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Brian Wayne Peterson](https://film.one/media/person/1293779/gallery-0fb498bb133d.jpg) Brian Wayne Peterson — Natasha Baucas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Brian_ComicCon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson – Comic-Con 2009 - Smallville - San Diego, Calif. - July 26, 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/1293779/gallery-a5ae6efc7984.jpg) Screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson – Comic-Con 2009 - Smallville - San Diego, Calif. - July 26, 2009. — Kristin Dos Santos, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Brian_Wayne_Peterson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![kristin.eonline.com - Comic-Con 2009 - Smallville - San Diego, Calif. - July 26, 2009](https://film.one/media/person/1293779/gallery-febd8ba5ee79.jpg) kristin.eonline.com - Comic-Con 2009 - Smallville - San Diego, Calif. - July 26, 2009 — Kristin Dos Santos from Los Angeles, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Allison_Mack%2C_Brian_Peterson_%283760085957%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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