Peter-Charles Seaton is the founder and director of The Writing Performance Laboratory, which conducts individually tailored creative writing workshops to help artists grow personally and professionally. Over the past decade, Seaton has given lectures, readings, and performances at numerous universities, literary venues, and festivals across the United States and abroad. He has published several poetry collections and collaborated on various albums. Seaton also has experience managing nonprofit organizations and mentoring at-risk youth through creative writing.

1. Peter-Charles Seaton
(917) 364-3595
Rainmaker9479@icloud.com
Seatoninc@gmail.com
Entreprenurship
The Writing Performance Laboratory
Mission statement 2010 – Present
The future will not be televised it will be written here.
Writers, musicians, artists, and all human beings with a heart in their chest and blood in their
veins
Are encouraged to grow as artists by growing as people first in an attempt to uncover a
uncensored soul
WPL conducts workshops that are individually based to the artist needs no workshop is exactly
the same
Major Featured Readings (includes forthcoming)
Universities/High Schools:
Clark University (Atlanta), New Jersey City University (Jersey City, NJ),James Madison
University (Virginia), Rutgers University (Newark New Jersey),McDaniel
University(Maryland), Connecticut University, (Connecticut),Utica University (New York),
Fordham University (New York), Columbia University (New York), Hunter University (New
York), Free port High school (New York), Massachusetts University (UMAS),and others
Literary/Performance Venues/Other
Bus Boys & Poets (Washington D.C.),Bus Boys & poets Arlington (Virginia) The Cantab
Lounge (Boston, MA), Lizard Lounge (Boston),The Louder ARTS Project (New York, NY),
Green light Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY),The Nuyorican Poets Café (New York, NY), Real Art
Ways (Hartford, CT), Bowery Poetry Club (New York), Urban Juke Joint (New York),and
others
Festivals
Harlem book fair (New York) Albany book fair (New York) Fire side book fair ( PA) Harlem
book fair (Newark New Jersey) Harlem book fair (Aruba)
Other
Tribute benefit for Amir Baraka
Tribute benefit for Abiodun Awelye of the Lasts Poets
Teaching Experience
Reality check Workshop group:

2. Lecturing and helping students come up with add campaigns through poetry to educate adults
and youth about the dangers of smoking cigarettes
Wordstock Initiative:
Conducting workshops on free form and helping artist connect more emotionally with their work
in relation to how they view there roles in the world they live
Slam Coach for the 08-09 New Jersey youth slam team for the HBO Brave New Voices
Conferences, Speeches, & Panels:
Relationship seminar - (Albany New York)
Woman who sent in questions about there personal relationships co facilitated with Jamaal St
John
Understanding the soul in poetry ( Manhattan New York)
Spiritual growth exercises through poetry and writing the a world you want to live in
Finding Growth everywhere the7/10 project (New York)
The 7/10 project pears singers with poets musicians with poets and tell them to free style entire
song complete with hook and ending
Publications (includes forthcoming)
Poetry Collection:
Between the Clouds and the Silver Lining (2000)
The Dreamer (2001)
Fire on the mind (2002)
Fireside (2004)
Blacker than Heaven (2009)
Full collection Blacker than heaven (2013)
Interview Audio
Grace underground Public access Television (Bronx New York)
Grace underground Public Access Television (Manhattan New York)
Audio:
For those who are listening Dj Irs compilation album
Poem Father’s song
Marc Marcel All around the world album
Poem “If I were to write about her”
The Rise of Consciousness (2000)
The Awakening (2010
Metaphor (2010)
Heart Logic (2013)
Management Experience

3. Operation hope (Self Employment development center), New York
• Transcribed information into database for review
• Kept track of all documents being utilized by the training classes
• Planned events and developed relations with other community based organizations
• Distributed information on programs, answered phones
• Managed the on-site internet café
Writing Performance Laboratory (WPL), Bronx, NY
Self Employed Acting and Writing coach, Mentor for artists, Poet
• Performing onstage in multiple states in Northeast Region, touring individually and
within teams
• Mentoring at risk teens and young adults
• Consultant to performance teams, assisting artists in developing acts and poetry for stage
Performing at charity events and group homes
Honors and Awards
Nuyorican Poetry Café Slam Team (2006)
Member of the slam team representing New York at Austin Texas
Bowery Poetry Club Wild Card Slam Champion (2007)
References available upon request