Peter is an exciting, up-and-coming Welsh writer and director. He is currently working as 2nd unit director on high-end series LOST BOYS AND FAIRIES for Perfect Peggy Productions, and is shadowing James Kent on a Directors UK and Screenskills run placement. He’s also recently finished working as a second unit director on Sky Original feature THE RADLEYS with Genesius Productions, starring Damien Lewis.
His play 5 GUYS CHILLIN’ was named one of “Ten Plays That Shaped Queer Theatre History” in the Evening Standard. It won Best LGBT Play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as previously winning a Brighton Fringe Award for LGBTQ Theatre and 2 Dublin International Gay Theatre festival awards, and won the Boyz Scene Award for Best London Play. It had a combined run of 6 months at the Kings Head Theatre in London and transferred Off Broadway to SoHo Playhouse. It has since been published by Oberon Books, and licensed in Australia and Canada and translated into Czech, Hebrew, and French for a run in Paris in 2019. He is currently developing a film adaptation and has recently been awarded funding from the BFI and Ffilm Cymru to write the script. Peter also has a project under option to Fulwell 73. He has most recently been commissioned by Fulwell 73 and Empty Room Productions to co-write a feature film with Eve Myles.
Peter’s short film CYSURO (Em-Lou Productions) which he wrote and directed was which was shortlisted for ‘Best Welsh Short’ at Wales International Film Festival. His recent short film with Full of Enfys for Ffilm Cymru, BBC Wales and BFI Network, G FLAT, premiered at the Iris Prize Opening Night, and went on to be selected for the BFI Flare Festival and Amsterdam’s Roze Filmdagen Festival 2023. His micro-documentary which he wrote and directed, INTIMACY LOCKED DOWN (Em-Lou Productions), has been selected for permanent preservation in the BFI National archive.
Peter directed Sasha Ellen’s SIGNAL FAILURE for a 6-week run at Soho Playhouse-Off Broadway, KINDNESS for BBC Radio 4 (The Independent’s Pick of the Week) and FRANK SENT ME which ran at Soho Theatre, The Underbelly and Theatre 503. Most recently he has directed KOMPROMAT by David Thame for the Vault Festival 2019.
Peter holds an MA in Theatre Directing from St Mary’s University College, and previously trained as an actor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and was recipient of the prestigious BBC Carleton Hobbs Award.
Peter was a member of BFI Network X BAFTA Crew for where he was selected for their mentorship programme and he is now a member of BAFTA Connect as well as an Associate Artist of the King’s Head Theatre.
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