Joined the Council in 1996. Graduate \u2013 New Zealand Drama School. A well-known actor and theatre director, Peter has worked in stage, radio, television and film. His many performances at Circa include A Doll\u2019s House, I Hate Hamlet, Angels in America, Arcadia, The Herbal Bed, The Bach, Copenhagen (for which he won a Chapmann Tripp Theatre Award for Actor of the Year), Democracy, Home Land, and Who wants to be 100?. He has directed Marathon, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, Wait Until Dark and All the World\u2019s a Stage. Recipient of the SGCNZ Artistic Fellowship to Shakespeare\u2019s Globe 2002, and Winston Churchill Fellowship 2007. Member of the Programming Committee. One of the capital\u2019s most well known actors, Peter has appeared in over 70 professional productions, most recently at Circa in Blood Wedding, and in Four Flat Whites in Italy. Earlier this year he starred in The Letter Writer during the NZ International Arts Festival, and he takes the stage next in The Birthday Boy. As a director his work includes Marathon and All The World\u2019s A Stagein Circa Two, and A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, Wait Until Dark, and last year\u2019s comedy hit The 39 Steps. Peter is a Circa Council Member, a winner of several Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards, and was awarded a S.G.C.N.Z. International Artistic Fellowship to Shakespeare\u2019s Globe in London (2002), and a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Shakespeare productions in the U.K. (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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