Career
He was director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from 1988 until 2005. Recent work as a director includes Home Box Office"s Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Big Love, Hung, and True Blood as well as Marco Polo, Jessica Jones and numerous other projects for Netflix. He worked as an executive producer on *Those Who Kill, American Broadcasting Company series Eli Stone and the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva.
He has taught for University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the O"Neill Center and Northwestern University and has developed new work for New York Stage and Film and the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference.
In 1996, Petrarca was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as a "Chicagoan of the Year". In 2006, he completed filming Save the Last Dance 2 for Paramount Pictures.
As of mid-2014, he was working on the screenplay of Wendy MacLeod"s Schoolgirl Figure, and a film adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire"s Fuddy Meers.
