Marion Peter Holt is a writer, translator, and professor emeritus of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He grew up in Spartanburg, attended Wofford College, and began his teaching career at Converse College. His research on Spartanburg's theatres, which he began as an undergraduate at Wofford, was eventually incorporated into the Hub City book Magical Places: The Story of Spartanburg's Theatres and Their Entertainments (2004).

His translations of contemporary Spanish and Catalan plays have been staged in New York and London, in Australia, and at regional and university theatres throughout the United States. He is currently completing a collection of Catalan plays in translation entitled Barcelona Plays, to be published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in 2007.