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Actors Lab Studio REBOOT

Nov 30, 2019 | Teaching

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 and high expectations as our adult actors. Our point of difference is that almost all of our teachers are working professionals who collectively bring a vast and practical emphasis to the work. Director Peter Feeney attends all classes to keep a watchful eye on our actors progress. Our other teachers include actors, directors, casting directors, as well as master teachers in voice, accent, and improvisation.

Visit www.actorslab.co.nz for more info.

Dublin, Ireland just before the big crash – Part I

by | Dec 21, 2014 |

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...

That tricky darn emotion!

by | Dec 18, 2014 |

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...

Our Own Odysseys – Fall of Communism

by | Jul 29, 2014 |

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...

My Year of Living Dangerously II: Russia 1992

by | Jul 11, 2014 |

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...

To read or not to read in Audition

by | Jun 8, 2014 |

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...