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Biography

Peter is a native English voice-over artist, experienced actor, poetry speaker and narrator/compere. He has a warm, intelligent, engaging, dynamic voice, with accurate diction and a touch of humour when required. With an academic background, he is comfortable with complex technical and non-technical material and has chaired and presented at workshops and conferences in 25 countries

Key Experience

  • Played Jacob Marley, Ghost of Jacob Marley & Mr Bentley in A Christmas Carol, Wokingham theatre, Dec. 2019
  • Played Chester in Off The Coast, short film dir. James Hastings for Hastings Infinity Films, June 2019
  • Played 10 characters, including Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, ‘Bomber’ Harris & Dwight Eisenhower in premiere of Steve Darlow’s Their Finest Hour, South Hill Park Studio Theatre, June 2019 & Feb. 2020
  • Invited poetry reader at the book launch of Pennies on My Eyes: Poems by Wilfred Owen, Two Rivers Press, at All Saints Church, Dunsden,10 November 2018.
  • Played Percy Maddox in My Dear, Dear Boy, Wokingham Theatre (November 2018)
  • 15 training videos (unscripted role-plays) for the NHS London Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Training Centre, filmed at Camden Studio, London (now online). (2016/2017/2018).
  • Voiceover for Women’s Suffrage (J S Mill speech excerpt) for Parliamentary Outreach, recorded at Alchemy Post, London (2016).
  • Invited solo reader for book launch of Lawrence Binyon, Poet of Two World Wars, British Library, London (2016)
  • Played Lord Atkin in two tours of Regulation 18B: No Free Man: Cookham Festival - World Premiere; Brecon; Gray’s Inn, London; Watlington Town Hall; Windsor Guildhall; Wokingham Theatre; Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford; The Maltings, St Albans; Minghella Studios, Reading University; Town Hall, Bampton; Highgate, London (private performance) (2015/16).
  • As narrator &/or poetry speaker, took leading role in 2014 WWI commemorations, a 4th August Vigil Concert & a Wilfred Owen concert, All Saints Church Dunsden, where Owen was a lay assistant.
  • Compere & poetry reader, Music & Words, Wotton-under-Edge, with Imogen Triner (oboe), Justine Tomlinson (violin) & Juliet Tomlinson (cello) (2007).
  • Read poems on BBC Radio 4 Poetry Please (2000) & Gyles Brandreth’s LBC Radio Word of Mouth programme (2000, 2001).
  • Won the Lockwood West Poetry Speaker's Prize (£500), presented by Timothy West at Speak-A-Poem 2000 UK national poetry speaking competition; won Second Prize at Speak-A-Poem 1999 (£300). Royal Central School, London.
  • Played Howard in month-long run of Mike Snelgrove’s Marking Time at the Man in the Moon Theatre, Chelsea (1997).

Industry Memberships

  • Equity, as Equity, as P G Pearson; The Actors Studio, London.

Poetry Performance

  • Poetry speaker at ‘The Life Cycle’ at Coppid Hall, Dunsden, (2015)
  • Poetry reader & compere: 12 concerts with Forest Voices, Berkshire & Oxfordshire (2001-2007).
  • Poetry reader & compere: Song, Society and South Hill Park, with Alison Horriben (soprano) & Richard Furstenheim (piano), South Hill Park, Bracknell (2002)
  • Wrote & performed 'A Phenomenology of Perception: Body, Environment and Language in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson' at Between Nature: Explorations in Ecology and Performance, international performance event, Lancaster University (2000).

International Speaking

  • Invited keynote speeches & talks at conferences & workshops in 25 countries & 5 continents, as Professor & Director of the Centre for Energy Policy & Technology, Imperial College London (1995-2009); & Director of the Low Carbon Research Institute of Wales, Cardiff University (2010-16).

Voice and Acting Training

  • Personal training in voiceover, radio drama & working to picture, plus monthly commercial, accent & drama workshops with The Voice Zone (Peter Warnock) (2017-19).
  • Radio actor in 8 workshops for The Radio Gym, London, directed by Gordon House (former Head, BBC Radio Drama), Gordon Lamont, Carl Prekopp & Rikki Lawton, recorded at Soundhouse Studios, Motivation Studios & Alchemy Post, London (2016-17).
  • 37 days of intensive workshops with Kristin Linklater, Aberystwyth, London & Orkney (2008-18).
  • 18 sessions & 1-day workshop with Francoise Walot (2017-18); 4 sessions with Gary Horner, London (2017); 2-day Shakespeare workshop with Ben Joiner, London (2018).
  • 7 sessions with Joanna Weir Ouston, London (2008); 1 day-workshop with Natsuko Ohama, London (2008).