PETER CORTISSOS

Peter has worked extensively in children’s theatre touring shows and performances across South Australia and Nationally. Most notably with Splash Theatre for The Water Show, with  Echelon Productions with their show “And the Winner Is..!”, Gaia Theatre and their production of Shaggles and Petrookio directed by Chris Pitman, several projects with spanning many years Inkpot Arts, like From Foothills to Footplates, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Whispering Walls. With Gumption Theatre we developed and toured Prince Pipsqueak.

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He co-wrote and performed in ‘Scaredy Kat’ with Colourwheel productions, a play for young children about furniture who come alive in a young girl’s room and speak in rhyming couplets. Scaredy Kat won the Best Presentation for Children at the 2011 Adelaide Fringe Festival and later was performed around Adelaide and in the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Peter has worked consistently since 2011 as a children’s entertainer in hospital settings utilising years of clowning and improvisation training and experience, performing in hospitals all over Australia, the UK, and over 30 remote Aboriginal communities, helping brighten the lives of seriously ill children. In 2024 he became a Performer’s Coach working with the SA team and nationally to train and develop future generations of performers across Australia.