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...
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...
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...
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...
Peter Feeney interviewed in The Sunday Star Times
Peter Feeney interviewed in The Sunday Star Times – Full article HERE
Cul de Sac Family Cast photo
I had to share this photo of me gorgeous screen family – we wrapped on this TV children’s series earlier this year. Roll on series two!
Making waves
Read the full article here - and discover how 50 year old Feeney is giving hope to aging Thespians everywhere...
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...
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...
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...
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...