Peggy Gordon is an actress, writer, singer and composer who wrote the song ‘By My Side’ in the original production of GODSPELL in which she also performed. Following GODSPELL Gordon has enjoyed a varied career in theater, publishing, television, film and recordings. She co-wrote TABOO IN REVIEW (with Robin Lamont) winning the Manhattan Association of Cabaret’s Best Musical Comedy Award, and co-wrote book, lyrics and music (with Michael Leeds) Mating Habits of the Urban Mammal. Her book “Rotten to the Core,” satirizing the Ed Koch administration, was published by Harper-Collins Books and Eclipse Comics. She developed “The Rock Bottom Awards for the Best and Worst in Bad Taste” for Viacom and HBO’s Comedy Central. Her film Bad Miracle won the New York Independent Film & Video Festival Award for ‘Best Screenplay.’ She has also written music for “Guiding Light,” ‘As the World Turns,” and “Another World.” Upcoming projects include the poignant comedy The Pertinacity of Love, a play slated for Broadway and the tv show, My Reinvented Life for which Peggy wrote the theme song, Starting Over.

Gordon grew up in Long Island, New York. At age 15 she worked at The Gateway Theater in Long Island where she professionally honed her skills as a singer, dancer and composer.  There she met Mark and Alvin Epstein who recognize her talent and cast her in a production of Liliom as well as sponsoring her enrollment at The Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School for high school students on the weekends in New York City. Her parents made her go to Carnegie Mellon where she met  John Michael Tebelak who conceives of  GODSPELL as a reaction to being treated uncivilly in church. Three years prior to GODSPELL’s conception, Gordon worked with a group of students calling themselves ‘The Open Players,’ many of whom would go on to become members of The Godspell Commune Company, the original group that co-created GODSPELL  with John Michael Tebelak. The Open Players, however, was not a collaboration condoned by the university. Fortuitously, a song Peggy wrote, Marigold’s Song, for a play written by Jay Hamburger for The Open Players, became, three years later during Godspell’s rehearsal process, the song ‘By My Side.’ On summer break from Carnegie, Gordon goes to San Francisco, California, to work with A.C.T.  [American Conservatory Theater] under the direction of William Ball, Ellis Rabb, Rene Auberjonois, Michael Learned and Kitty Wynn, and many former students at Carnegie Mellon. While at A.C.T., John Michael Tebelak calls her and tells her to rush to New York City as GODSPELL will be produced at La Mama E.T.C. When Stephen Schwartz (another  Carnegie alum) was brought in to rewrite the music and lyrics, the song Gordon had written remained in the show.