Peta Cornish

ACTOR WRITER DEVISER CREATIVE

Actor, writer, creative, lover of language.

Interested in new and collaborative work that seeks to change and challenge. In both live & recorded performance.
Love working on pieces that explore what's in the interim, the interplay between movement and language.

I write and perform spoken word and am always interested in articulating thought creatively.

Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
She/Her

Credits

Acting work includes: MAID, Common (National Theatre), LOU, After October & KYLLENE, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (Finborough Theatre), M, Testament (Vaults Festival), SARAH, Future Conditional (Old Vic), GILLIAN, To Sir With Love (Royal & Derngate & UK Tour), MARY, The Welsh Boy (Theatre Royal Bath); TV/FILM: KATE, William & Mary Series 1-3 (ITV), GIRL, Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special (BBC); ELLIE, Frail (Suspension Films).VOICE WORK: Medici: Masters of Florence (Netflix); Doctor Who: And You Will Obey Me (Big Finish); Mohammed (BFI).

WRITING: LUCY (developed with Kiln Theatre and The Arcola) performed at The Pleasance Theatre; SCRAMBLED, developed with Hightide, performed at LIVE! Manchester.

Training

MA Acting Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Acting Habit Film Course
Arcola Writing for Stage
MONOBOX Write Your First Play
Frantic Assembly Basic Training
National Youth Theatre Summer Course

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Film - feature
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Devising
  • Performing
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Conversational Spanish

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