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  Peter Searles
 
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Peter Searles trained at LAMDA

He worked as a rigger in the North Sea before becoming an actor and for the past eight years Peter has been touring his internationally acclaimed trilogy of one-man shows HEY GRINGO! Through Peru, Bolivia & Beyond; A Chile Christmas about his travels in South America throughout the UK, USA, Europe, Ireland, Bermuda, the Middle and Far East

Peter has performed 400+ shows, in 18 different countries, at over 100 different venues, including sell-out successes at the Cottesloe - Royal National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester and the Bermuda, Chichester and Cheltenham Literature Festivals.

Peter's professional credits and experience include:

  Theatre     Directing
Hamlet, Brother & Sisters Royal National Theatre;    Romeo & Juliet , God Say Amen English Shakespeare Company;    The Tempest, Berlin Berlin, Ubu Roi Actors Touring Company;    The Fairy Queen (Narrator) Royal Opera House;  Five Smooth Stones The Bush Theatre;    L'Ascensore ICA & Singapore Festival;    A Mid Summer Night's Dream Wimbledon Theatre;   Tittle-Tattle Tour of Middle East & Edinburgh Festival
 
Miniatures Highland Festival; Educating Rita Streetwise Fringe – Dubai; Diatribe Of Love (One woman show with Linda Marlowe) UK Tour; Lord Of The Flies Eden Court Theatre, Inverness; The Winter's Tale The Small School – Tour of Japan (for RNT Education Dept.); Treats, Play Central School Of Speech & Drama; The Family (Shakespeare Project) Rose Bruford College
  Television     Radio     Writing

Eastenders; The Bill; The Piglet Files; Comedy Nation; Human Zoo; The Peasant's Revolt; The Case Of The Frightened Lady; Titus Andronicus; Henry VI Parts 1, 2, & 3; Richard III

 

Numerous productions for BBC Radio 4 Schools, including Movement & Drama Series (Presenter); A Chile Christmas, BBC Radio 4 2004, (Critics Choice) - Radio Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph & The Sunday Times

 

Writing credits include Five Smooth Stones The Bush Theatre; Pacha Mama's Blessing NYT – Almeida & International Festival, Edinburgh; The People are the Forest, BBC2 TV (Scene Series). His personal account of life on an oil rig served as the initial inspiration for the BBC series Roughnecks