Peter Feeney

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Blind Bitter Happiness Kickstarter Campaign

Blind Bitter Happiness Kickstarter Campaign

Peter is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for postproduction on Episodes 2 and 3 of his TV show, Blind Bitter Happiness. There are some groovy rewards, including some really funky ones for actors. ‘What I loved about Blind Bitter Happiness was...

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Actors Lab Studio REBOOT

Actors Lab Studio REBOOT

Hey all, my teaching now has a website all of it's own! In 2019 we  relaunched as a one stop acting school with our main focus on getting actors into screen work. We've added a dedicated Teen class (TWO in 2020), whose participants we treat with the same respect...

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The Actors Lab Studio now has it’s own website!

The Actors Lab Studio now has it’s own website!

  Check us out at www.actorslab.co.nz There's been some big changes: in 2019 we relaunched as a one stop acting school with our sole focus on getting our actors into screen work. For the first time we’ve adding a dedicated Teen class. And we have a LOT more guest...

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Coaching

Coaching

My new Studio is now up and running! Set in a leafy valley close to Castor Bay beach, this is the perfect haven for myself and my clients to do camera coaching and work through scripts, either live or via Skype. If I'm not acting or teaching this is where you'll find...

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Our vision for theatre productions

Our vision for theatre productions

Back in 2005 when I produced MILO'S WAKE the stage play my founding concept was that our theatre productions would be high quality, accessible, cheaply priced, and presented in traditional meeting places - pubs, clubs and halls. I wanted to...

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Five days in Bali-wood

Five days in Bali-wood

It was the arsenic hour - 8am, the wife at work, three kids running amok in various states of undress - when the phone rang. Stu, a producer at Curious Films, told me I’d just been cast in a TV commercial. I did a triple take, then remembered an old audition I’d...

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Making waves

Read the full article here - and discover how 50 year old Feeney is giving hope to aging Thespians everywhere...

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PETER ON RADIO NEW ZEALAND NIGHTS

PETER ON RADIO NEW ZEALAND NIGHTS

In July I chatted with Nights host on National Radio, Bryan Crump, about what it was like to live in Russia just after the fall of communism. That's me, a hundred years ago (it feels) admiring the view of the Moscow River and the Kievskii Voksal (train station) from...

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Dublin, Ireland just before the big crash – Part I

Dublin, Ireland just before the big crash – Part I

Ireland was booming when I visited early in 2008. And the property crash was just around the corner. My accommodation was the swanky Chief O’Neill’s Hotel. It was part of the grand local commercial, residential and cultural development in Smithfield village. Now...

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That tricky darn emotion!

That tricky darn emotion!

It’s true that often-times we feel the obligation to emote very strongly – and we must rise to the occasion if the script’s big print tells us something like: ‘Bill bursts into tears.’ But anything that over-stimulates the actor’s inner censor is bad news. And apart...

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Our Own Odysseys – Fall of Communism

Our Own Odysseys – Fall of Communism

Peter on Nights Well that was fun! I chatted with Nights host on National Radio, Bryan Crump, about 1992 and what it was like to live in Russia just after the fall of communism. It was cold, and rather alchololic (what's that in the coffee cup)? Anyway, here is the...

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My Year of Living Dangerously II: Russia 1992

My Year of Living Dangerously II: Russia 1992

The latest in an ongoing series on Peter’s adventures in Russia. Sunday, 1 December 1991. As I blew in to Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, I had about five words of spoken Russian; that’s all that had stuck from the six week intensive language course. I had as much...

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To read or not to read in Audition

To read or not to read in Audition

When US casting director Tom McSweeney first visited our fair Australasian shores, he was amazed that actors were expected to memorise their lines for auditions. In LA, where he came from, reading, and reading at short notice, was the norm. Tom believes that, after a...

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Interview with Michael Galvin

Interview with Michael Galvin

This is NUTS. An interview I did for QuoteUnquote magazine with Michael Galvin, Dr Chris Warner on Shortland Street, in 1996! It was a few months after he left Shorty. I'd just done a one month stint and was to return for a longer stint a few years later as acting...

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Bali-wood

Bali-wood

In December I went to Bali for five days to act in a TVC for a bookings.com campaign. It was a fabulous time, I have to confess. Sorry to skite, but we were spoilt rotten: practically by our lovely producer, Angela Hovey, and creatively by the awesome team from...

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My Year of Living Dangerously: Russia 1992

My Year of Living Dangerously: Russia 1992

I flew to Russia via a stopover in Belgrade. There was a civil war going on which explained the cut price Yugoslav Airlines fare, though the saving was lost when I was robbed in a sleazy Belgrade hotel. Undaunted, next day I touched down at Sheremetyevo airport,...

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Acting Coaches: who needs them anyway?!

Acting Coaches: who needs them anyway?!

Last week I was asked by Phil Darkins of NZ Equity to do a Q&A with Jennifer Ward-Leyland, Britta McVeigh and Miranda Harcourt on the Actor-Coach relationship. Flattered to be included in such exulted company, I accepted. The evening has come and gone, and it was...

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ON NERVES, SELF-DOUBT AND CONFIDENCE

ON NERVES, SELF-DOUBT AND CONFIDENCE

"The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I’m trying to rectify my wrongs" - Joaquin Phoenix You don’t have to be a tortured artist to be a good actor. You have a right to happiness, a life long partner, kids, travel, a life, all that good...

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Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Six days in spin city

Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Six days in spin city

For any actor Hollywood’s sheer existence is a dare, exerting a near fatal attraction. I’d steadfastly resisted it’s heady allure until, at 40, ancient by Californian standards, curiosity got the better of me. To insulate myself from hard knocks on my first visit and...

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