Peta Lily

Peta is a performer, teacher, devisor and director. She has devised and directed theatre works in the UK, Hong Kong, Australia and Europe. She also teaches at Central School of Speech and Drama, The Actors Centre and other leading Drama Schools, as well as leading open workshops.

Lily has trained with Jacques Le Coq, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Theatre du Mouvement, Yoshi Oida, Carlo Bosso (Commedia dell'Arte), Sankai Juku (Butoh Dance), Alvin Ailey School in New York, Master Yeung Kim Wah (Cantonese Opera) and Mike Alfreds (Theatre Direction).

She has directed and devised pieces for David Glass, WSMD, YMT, ArtsEd, CSSD, Opera Circus, Portuguese companies Meta-Mortem-Fase and Tryfus and Alice for Refresh Theater in Liverpool. She is currently working with John-Paul Zaccarini on his Circo-Analysis Development Project and is Dark Clown consultant for Acrojou’s new show Wake. Other work includes movement direction on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Library Theatre, Manchester. Recent performing includes Wolf directed by Kath Burlinson, solo shows In/Vocation and Midriff and comedy with Claire Dowie and Friends at the Drill Hall. As well as her numerous solo shows she has written three plays: The Porters Daughter, Blame and Random Oracle.