Welcome to the website of Peter Feeney, actor, writer, teacher, and director
Welcome to the website of Peter Feeney, actor, writer, teacher, and director.
An NZ Pakeha of Irish heritage, I’ve been a professional actor since 1994, working in UK, US, Australian and NZ Theatre, TV & Film. These days I feel more like a creative entrepreneur than an actor. This year (2025) I directed 2:22 A Ghost Story at Circa theatre, have started recording a podcast called ‘Saving Democracy,’ and started StoryLab, a community storytelling initiative. I run my own wee Acting school, the Actors Lab Studio and I’m a published author who has written numerous articles, screenplays and several books. My handbook on acting, ‘Acting and How to Survive it,’ was published in 2020, my first novel, ‘Blind Bitter Happiness,’ was published by Harper Collins and is now a limited TV series that I wrote, produced, directed and acted in (yes, the full nightmare). In 2005 and 2006 I directed and played the title role in the Auckland Seasons and national NZ tour of Michael and Margery Forde’s stage play, ‘Milo’s Wake.’ I am now adapting the play as a TV series with Jonathan Brough (Australia based NZ director).
I’ve performed at most NZ theatres, and some in Australia as well. My one person show A Night with Beau Tyler toured all over NZ in 2008 & 2009. I’ve worked or trained at different times with the likes of Cicely Berry (Royal Shakespeare Company), Bob Benedetti (US Emmy Award winning Television producer and Broadway Theatre Director), Rob Marchand and Dean Carey. Credits over a long career include the Kiwi zombie hit Black Sheep; Australian mini-series A Difficult Woman, UK TV Dark Knight and Cold Feet, numerous US TV & tele-features, including Spartacus, 30 Days of Night and Ash versus Evil Dead, as well as playing the iconic Rose Noelle skipper John Glennie alongside Dominic Purcell in Abandoned – the winner of best tele-feature at the 2017 NZ Film Awards.
I have a 1st Class Honours degree in Politics & History from the University of Melbourne and a Diploma in Drama from the University of Auckland. I was Nominee for Best Actor in the 2003 NZ Film Awards – and lost to a ten-year-old James Rolleston!
https://www.actorslab.co.nz/
https://www.actorslab.co.nz/storylab/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/bbh
https://www.instagram.com/blindbitterhappiness
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270356/