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Peter Cortissos has been performing comedy in some form since he was just a child.

 

In 2004 while still at High School he entered Class Clowns and made it through to the final round.

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In 2009 he co-founded notorious sketch comedy group: The Golden Phung with Roy Phung, Eddie Morrison, Andrew Crupi, Lucy Markievicz, Tom Fitzsimmons, and Graham Self.

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The Golden Phung became regulars at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, often selling out shows across their four major appearances, and travelling to The Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2011. The Golden Phung would later create a successful web series. They would go on to be nominated and win several awards.

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In 2011, Peter started working as a children’s entertainer in hospital and medical settings, which focussed on and grew his skills in improvisational comedy and children’s entertainment. Peter still works in this role and continues to grow and learn every day. He is now a performance coach and teaches comedy and performance skills to other children’s performers.

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In 2016 he started doing a series of comedic performance poetry.

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While travelling to Darwin in 2017, Peter entered Top End Comedy’s stand up comedy competition “Comedy Survivor” at the beachfront Hotel, winning first prize and taking out a cash prize.

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In 2018 Peter moved to Darwin to spend a year in the Northern Territory. He started regularly attending stand up comedy nights, and soon became a regular at Top End Comedy, as well as Croc Bite Comedy.

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After successfully auditioning, Peter was selected for Top End Comedy’s Laugh It Off, a showcase of new and upcoming Darwin based talent for a feature spot alongside four other comics.

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In 2019, Peter studied at the John Bolton Theatre School in Melbourne, which had a focus on physical theatre,  clowning and bouffon clowning.

Since then Peter has returned to Adelaide where you can see him on stage doing stand up comedy, or improv.

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