Peter Marks is a staff writer for the Washington Post and has been the paper’s chief theater critic since 2002. Prior to that, he was a reporter and theater critic for 10 years for The New York Times.

His positions at the Times included a stint as a national correspondent, covering the 2000 Presidential campaign. Before that, he was a reporter and feature writer for Newsday, after stints at the Newark Star-Ledger and other New Jersey newspapers.

In 1992, he was on a team of Newsday reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, for coverage of a New York subway crash.

He is a co-author with the late AIG CEO Bob Benmosche of the 2016 memoir, Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America, the story of Benmosche’s life, culminating in his successful revitalization of an insurance giant hobbled by the 2008 financial crisis. His writings have appeared in a variety of other American publications, and for several years he taught theater criticism in the honors program at George Washington University.

He is co-host of the theater podcast Three on the Aisle, with critics Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal and Elisabeth Vincentelli, a contributor to the New York Times. A graduate of Yale, he lives in Manhattan with his wife, Valerie.