Iguana (1994) as Reverend Shannon Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, Illinois) Dillinger (1978) as John Dillinger Heat (February 1978) Towards the Morning (October 1978) Flyovers (1998) as Ted Blackbird (2009) as Ray (won the Jeff Awards) Wisdom Bridge Theatre (Chicago) Canticle of the Sun (1981) as Unknown In the Belly of the Beast (1985) as Jack Henry Abbott (Prize Joseph Jefferson Awards Best Actor) Speed the Plow (1989) as Bobby Gould Other stage works Darkness at Noon (1976), Chicago area production A Streetcar Named Desire (1984) as Stanley Kowalski, Stratford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, 1984 Days and Nights Within, by Ellen McLaughlin (1986) as Interrogator, Remains Theatre production at Organic Theatre, Chicago Puntila and His Hired Mano (1986) as Matti, Organic Theatre Speed the Plow as Bobby Gould, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The Night of the Iguana (1996) as Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right Theatre, New York City Twelfth Night as Unknown, Illinois Shakespeare Festival As You Like It as Unknown, Illinois Shakespeare Festival In Belly of the Beast (1983) as Jack Henry Abbott (Ivanhoe Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1985 and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 1985) (nominated for Helen Hayes Awards Non-Resident Acting, 1986) A Class C Trial in Yokohama, Chicago Theatre Project In The Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison, Glasgow, Scotland and London, England, including the American Festival, London, 1985 A Dublin Carol by Conor McPherson (2006) as John Plunkett, Trinity Reportory Company (Providence) Slowgirl by Greg Pierce (2014) (Los Angeles, California, Geffen Playhouse) Appeared in productions at Boise State University and Lewis and Clark College Stage director Farmyard, Remains Theatre, Chicago, c. 1980 Traps, Remains Theatre, 1983 Accolades See also List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame References External links Screen grabs, press stills and information about Petersen's famous role in Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986) "Petersen not sad about 'CSI' exit", Digital Spy, January 9, 2009 William Petersen Biography (1953-) at Film Reference The William Petersen Appreciation Page 1953 births 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American people of Danish descent American people of German descent Television producers from Illinois Idaho State Bengals football players Idaho State University alumni Living people Male actors from Evanston, Illinois Male actors from Idaho People from Boise, Idaho Steppenwolf Theatre Company