Peter's apprenticeship began in the sixties on a
five year contract with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He
worked as writer and program assistant with the 'Argonauts' before
moving to ABC Television where he wrote and directed over a hundred
multicam productions. For ABCTV and Gunnar Isaacson Productions he wrote
24 half hour travel documentaries on Middle Eastern and Asian countries,
'Letters From Abroad' and directed a
documentary on students politics in Sweden,
'Sweden at Home' . He also wrote and directed a number of
short films for ABCTV magazine programs. In the late sixties Peter
worked as Peter Summerton's assistant director on a production of Arthur
Miller's 'After the Fall' at the
Independent Theatre in Sydney.
In the 1980's Peter wrote and directed two very successful documentaries
for Chateau productions, 'Mountain Man'
about a brumby hunter's life in the Victorian High Plains and 'Cradle of Mankind', shot in Africa
and investigating Dr. Richard Leakey's latest discoveries of ancient
hominid fossils. Both documentaries were bought and screened by Network
Ten and later sold to Discovery Channel, National Geographic and
Deutsche Television.
He worked as a producer with Beyond International making 'Entertainment Beyond 2000' and
setting up several other documentaries. For the same company Peter
adapted Trish Sheppard's novel 'Children of
Blindness' into a screenplay. He also wrote the screenplays 'Big Tin Gods' and
'Spider Dance'.
In 2003 Peter directed a production of William Mastrosimone's violent
play about rape,
'Extremities' at the Edge Theatre in
Sydney. Other plays he has directed include
'Uncle Vanya',
'Icarus's Mother', 'Chamber
Music', 'White With Wire Wheels', 'The Real Inspector Hound', 'Good
Sometime' and 'The Waiting Room'
In early 2006 he directed a highly successful
stage adaptation of the iconic Australian film,
'The Castle' for Jally Productions
in Queensland. Recent short films include
'Cirque du Psyche' and 'No Strings'.
In February 2006 he wrote and directed a one hour documentary, 'Baba's Birthday', with Michael Ney
of Sensory Image Productions. This film follows Peter's son Luke to
India where Luke appears in a theatre production of the classic Bedouin
love story 'Leila and Majnun', to
celebrate the birthday of the spiritual Master Meher Baba.