Peter Eliot Weiss (1953- ) is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director whose play, "Down for the Count," is in "New Canadian Drama," Volume 7, "West Coast Comedies" (1999 Borealis). His Ph.D. is from University of Toronto's Graduate Drama Centre and has taught at Simon Fraser University, University of British Columbia, and is the Associate Director of Language Across the Curriculum Program at the University of Toronto. His most popular play is the award-winning "Sex Tips for Modern Girls."

New Canadian Drama - Volume 7, West Coast Comedies, edited by Alan Filewod. Volume 7 contains three comedies from British Columbia. In Village of Idiots John Lazarus offers an anthology of comic folktales about the famous wise fools of Chelm; Ian Weir´s St. George is a gently ironic study of a naive academic whose life is framed by his devotion to English literature; and in Down for the Count Peter Eliot Weiss resituates Dracula to the eve of the First World War and exposes the sexual repression and desire that feed Bram Stoker´s famous novel. Each of these three plays taps into contemporary angst, synthesizing the strange and the familiar into something that might be seen as a new Canadian sensibility.