Actor

I have had the marvellous opportunity to work on many different TV and Radio programmes throughout my career, and across the spectrum of theatre in the UK, from national companies with international touring, to smaller organisations operating on the Fringe.
To be involved in the creation of so many of these projects has been an immense source of pride and pleasure.
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama was a wonderful training ground, and working as a young actor with Cicely Berry at the RSC set me off on a path of discovery and expression that has continued to this day.

Theatre includes : Twelfth Night (Broadway); Richard III (Broadway); King Lear (Tokyo); Comedy of Errors; The Tempest; Henry VIII; All's Well That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; The Changeling; The Broken Heart; Anne Boleyn; Gabriel; The Frontline; Holding Fire; The Golden Ass (Shakespeare's Globe); #WeAreArrested; The Dream 16 : A Play for the Nation; Epicoene; A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC);  The Promise (Chichester); Comfort Me With Apples (London Evening Standard Award) (Hampstead); Romeo and Juliet (Regents Park​); One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Nimax UK tour); The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield) ; The Bacchae (Shared Experience); Richard II, The Moonstone (Manchester Royal Exchange); Mrs Orwell (Southwark Playhouse); The Caretaker; David Copperfield (Dundee); Emma (Method and Madness); Mansfield Park (Sheffield/Chichester); Strange Passenger (Paines Plough); Parent's Evening (Jermyn Street Theatre); 1936 (Attic Theatre) ; Saint Joan (Birmingham); Miss Julie; Macbeth (Southampton); The Lifeblood (Edinburgh/Wilton's Music Hall); Norman Conquests (Basingstoke); George's Marvellous Medicine (Bolton); A Belly Full (Mill at Sonning); Who's The Daddy? ; Timing (King's Head).
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Television and Film includes : A Taste For Murder; Emmerdale; Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; The Confessions of Frannie Langton; Exterminate All The Brutes; The Nest; Genius: Einstein; Wolf Hall; Babs; Upstart Crow; Downton Abbey; Silk; Silent Witness; EastEnders; Holby City; Doctor Who; Waking The Dead; The Bill; Doctors; Table Twelve; Dream Team; The Plot Against Harold Wilson; The Curse of Steptoe.

Radio includes : BBC Radio Rep ; Harry Potter; Christmas Pudding; The Venice Conundrum; The Sisters (Arias Gold Award 2024); My Friend: Marie Antoinette; Bournewood; The Day Dad Stole A Bus; Scribblers; Bretton Woods; Book of the Week: Then They Came For Me; Ulysses; The Colour of Milk; The Cruel Sea; Mrs Dalloway; The Tempest; Songs and Lamentations; Titanic; Twelfth Night; Pilgrim; Caligari; Black Dirt; Brother Dusty Feet; How I Learned To Drive; Is Anything Broken?; The Grudge; The British Club; Red and Blue; Witch Week; The Warrah; Trueman and Riley; Blue Flu; Waiting for the Boatman; Caligari; The House in the Trees; The Lifeblood.

Director

It is a joy to create ensemble companies that are firmly rooted in text, who have a real sense of play in the rehearsal room and on stage, that understand the integral importance of music not as an underscore but as a part of the dramatic narrative, and a true belief that 'whatever you are going to say is more important than what you have just said'. Modern practice suggests actors should bring characters to themselves : I believe actors should take themselves to the character, with an intense focus on a writer's words and phrasing.
​Peter is a Course Director for Shakespeare's Globe Higher Education Faculty and a Visiting Director at Rose Bruford, Central, and Drama Studio London, and Voice and Speech Tutor at Tom Todoroff Studio, New York.
Direction includes : 'Comedy of Errors' : Central; 'The Laramie Project', 'Hamlet', 'Twelfth Night'; 'Speak The Word': Drama Studio London. 'Twelfth Night', 'As You Like It' : Rose Bruford. 'Twelfth Night' : Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Artistic Director : 'Sibton Abbey Pageant'. 'The Conversion of St Paul' : Sibton Abbey. 'The Taming of the Shrew' : University of the Creative Arts/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.  'Julius Caesar' : Principia College/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 'Cymbeline' : East 15/Globe Theatre. 'The Taming of the Shrew' : Bath Spa University/Globe Theatre. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' : Asbury University/Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Rutgers University : Showcase/Globe Theatre. The Milton Consort : 'Milton'/'Shakespeare'/'Donne'/'Medieval Lit'/'Winter Wassail'/'For Queen and Country' programmes.
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Reviews for Twelfth Night. Kew Gardens. 2022 :
'Directed with a real lightness.... entertaining... energetic... charming... delightful.... no better way to spend an evening.'  Broadway World
'A breezy, jazz age production.' The Stage
'Delightful 1930's swinging jazz production... The company is strong... the production well-paced... glorious music... Almost everything one could want ... The cast is on fire.'  London Theatre Reviews

Shakespeare's Globe Tutor

Working extensively at Shakespeare's Globe as both an actor and tutor and director has been an enormous privilege, and remains one of the greatest influences on my life. The Globe is a unique space in its combination of vocal, physical, and textual demands, and to explore its impact in the Globe's early years, with Mark Rylance, Tim Carroll, Giles Block, Stuart Pearce, and Glynn McDonald, and later under Dominic Dromgoole's leadership, has had a lasting and a profound effect.
As a result, I truly believe that adhering to metre and the inherent rhythm in Shakespeare's verse and prose, liberates Shakespeare's text for the performer, reader, and listener, and that a physical freedom is essential to performing the plays.
Peter is a member of Shakespeare'​s Globe Higher Education Faculty, for whom he has taught for the Globe Studio for professional actors, and been a Course Director, Scenes Director, Globe Performance Practice Tutor, and Text Tutor.
​He has taught MA and undergraduate students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, LAMDA, Rutgers University, University of the Creative Arts, Landmark, Wisconsin-Platteville, Bath Spa, Asbury, Performing Arts Abroad, Utah Valley, Texas at Dallas, Viterbo, Brunel, East 15, Queen Mary University of London, Lausanne, Dutch Academy of Performing Arts, Babson, London South Bank, Syracuse, Texas State, Valparaiso, University of Notre Dame, Millikin, and University of the Arts Philadelphia.

The Milton Consort

In 1999 the British Library sent out an invitation to anyone with performance skills to suggest projects which would celebrate 1000 years of English Literature and mark a new Millenium. I had previously performed John Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' as a one man show at the Edinburgh Festival, and reviving the recital of this magnificent poem for these celebrations made me realise that performances of classical texts with musicians on period instruments would be a fantastic project to pursue, and one that was close to the heart of everything I loved.
​The Milton Consort was thereby created, and with the expert participation of Globe musicians Keith McGowan (woodwind) and Arngeir Hauksson (theorbo lute) and Emily Baines (woodwind) programmes have been devised and developed, and performances given at events and literary festivals across the country, including Southwark Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, Ledbury, Sevenoaks, Chester, Havant, Ilkley, Beverley, Blackdowns, Peasenhall, Oxford, City of London, Sibton Abbey, Culpho, and New York.
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To date the performed programmes are 'John Milton's Samson Agonistes'; '40 Sonnets of William Shakespeare'; 'John Donne's Sonnets, Sermons, and Songs'; 'This Olde English : A Celebration of Medieval English Literature'; 'A Winter Wassail : A Celebration in Words and Music of Christmas through the Ages'; and 'For Queen and Country' celebrating Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

'You could hear a pin drop, the audience were so enthralled... such quality and passion... easily one of the highlights of the Festival.' Chester Literature Festival
'The audience lapped up the event.'  Durham Book Festival
'An inspired union. Creative, humorous, moving, soulful. The most memorable experience of the Sonnets.'  Tom Todoroff Studio. NYC
'The Milton Consort added a different dimension.'  Havant Literary Festival
'The audience loved it... one of their top Festival events.'  Ilkley Literary Festival
'Peter Hamilton Dyer makes Shakespeare's poetry sound as if it was written yesterday.'  Sevenoaks Literary Festival
'Masterful.'  Ledbury Poetry Festival

                                                                                            Ferry crossing, Walberswick, Suffolk.