Brian Wayne Peterson

Brian Wayne Peterson
Peterson at the 2010 Smallville Comic-Con Panel
Born	1971/1972 (age 44–45)
Occupation	screenwriter, television producer

Brian Wayne Peterson (born 1971/1972) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He wrote the script for 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader and has worked on many episodes of Smallville as writer and producer since 2002. His consistent writing partner on Smallville is Kelly Souders.

Peterson received a Master of Fine Arts in writing for screen & television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1997.

Shortly after his graduation, Jamie Babbit, the director for But I'm a Cheerleader, asked Peterson to write a script for her film after reading a story he had written about a gay cowboy. Peterson used his own personal experiences to help him write the story, which is about a group of teenagers who attend conversion therapy camp. He is gay himself, and had had some experience of conversion therapy while working at a prison clinic for sex offenders. In 1999, Variety named him one of "10 Screenwriters to Watch".