When Whitney Peak learned that she had booked a starring role in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping, which comes out next fall, the first thing she did was call her mom. “She didn’t know what The Hunger Games was,” says the 22-year-old actress. “She was just like, ‘Oh my God, you got a job!’”
Luckily, we need not wait until 2026 for Peak’s next performance. This weekend, she’s making her stage debut opposite Pamela Anderson in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Tennessee Williams’s Camino Real. Peak plays Esmeralda, the gypsy from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and one of the multiple literary figures who populate the play.
