Peter Holdway

Experience

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  Actor/Teacher

  Sept 1981 - now

  Performing Arts Professional

  Actor: Physical and Visual Theatre - including mask and working at height -, Heritage, Stage, TV, Film; Storyteller; Teacher, Mime, Movement, Mask, Improvisation, Public presentation; Interpreter of History, Costume, Buildings (Past Pleasures Ltd); Commentator/MC for special events; Fluent French Speaker; Translator, Writer. Always looking for new approaches, avenues, links.

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  Central TV Nottingham - TV Workshop

  Jan 1983 - Jan 1986

  Visiting Tutor

  I gave workshops in mime and movement - oh, and mask - to the workshop members very regularly (Ian smith called my contributions "specials"!). There was team teaching as well, with musicians, writers, at summer schools. Great fun and a real highlight.

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  BAC

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1992

  Dame Grosslady

  I played Elizabeth's eccentric apothecary, originally Dario Fo's part. Her language, in the translation, was a brilliantly weird mixture of Scottish, Italian and English so I made her Welsh and called it Taffitalian... Huge fun and it got me my first agent! Plenty to be grateful for there, then.

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  Royal Shakespeare Company

  Mar 1995 - Nov 1996

  Company member

  In that season, I was in The Relapse (Vanbrugh), The Painter of Dishonour (Calderon, trans. Johnstone), and Faust I & II (Goethe, trans Brenton). It was a seminal part of my life, I had a blast and learnt so much that it transformed my work radically. From going in as a player of small parts, I ended up as a singing soloist, had a part created for me and became an aerial artist on rope and trapeze. And I made some lifelong friends. Very special time and I'd love to go back!

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  Millennium Dome

  Aug 1999 - Dec 2000

  Soloist

  Great place, huge buzz, played Dad and had the honour of playing a sequence to Father/Son by Peter Gabriel. The mauling the place received from peevish press and cowardly politicians means I no longer buy newspapers or have respect for the people we vote for (or not...). I was there and it was amazing.

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  Past Pleasures

  Jan 2005 - now

  Interpreter

  A major player in Heritage across the world, Past Pleasures provides Actors, Teachers, Historians to inhabit historical buildings and sites of historical significance and bring the people who lived in those places to life; through this real interactive approach, visitors are given a way into the vivid past of these important venues, illustrating the important roles they have played in the history of the UK. Tricking Into Learning with a Laugh. The company works, amongst other places, at Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, Dover Castle, the Museum of London. Show less

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  Sky/Mob

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  The Hogfather

  I played an Auditor in the feature film, but played Death in the Interactive featurettes called the Twelve Days of Hogwatch. These small films introducing Terry Pratchett's Discworld to people who didn't know it won a BAFTA. I'm very proud and grateful to Vadim at Mob and Paula Nightingale who directed the Interactive films for the chance to be in this groundbreaking film.

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  Gecko Theatre

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  Company Member/Performer

  The Overcoat directed by Amit Lahav, performed at Edinburgh and Tbilisi, Georgia. Played entirely in French, worked at height, had an absolute ball!

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  Potomac Tlaking Books Inc

  Sept 2016 - now

  Narrator

  I narrate books and magazines for the US National Library Service. I've done detective novels, histories of French poetry and the British Empire, mags like France-Amérique, Sound & Vision, Natgeo Kids.

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  Graphic Audio

  Jan 2017 - now

  Voice Actor

  We do Marvel Comics adaptations among other great books and series, from zombies to westerns. Visit their site: http://www.graphicaudio.net

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  Self-Employed

  Jun 2019 - now

  Voice Actor/Actor/Teacher

  Expanding my footprint in the creative industries. I'm a freelance Voice Actor, Actor, Director, Teacher.

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  International School of Lusaka (ISL)

  Jan 2020 - now

  Head of Drama

  Teacher of Drama at Middle School level to iGCSE and up to IB.