A conversation with creatives
hosted by Peter Eyers
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The Podcast
STAGES is the podcast that accesses a variety of people whose professional life is about connecting with an audience. A host of creative artists and practitioners reflect on their career, their process and what matters – to them.
Some have made the arts a lifetime pursuit, some explain how their career became a happy accident, but all describe the challenges and demands and ultimately celebrate why there’s no business like show business!
STAGES talks to talent from front of house and backstage - actors, agents and acrobats … directors, designers, drag artists and doormen … performers, producers and publicists ... teachers, technicians and talent!
Whatever stages it takes to engage and affect an audience – or whatever it takes to carve out a career in the arts – we’ll examine it in STAGES.
STAGES is the recipient of the Best New Podcaster Award at The Australian Podcast Awards in 2019.
STAGES is produced by Peter Eyers.
Graphic Design by Stephen Grace.
Email: stagespodcastpete@gmail.com
THE HOST
Peter Eyers is a graduate of the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, a passionate advocate for the Arts in education and a keen proponent of Australia’s rich Arts heritage. These qualities have all contributed to the evolution of the STAGES podcast and a quest to record oral histories from the artists, the creatives and the ancillary roles that have contributed so vividly to what we relish on stages and screens. As producer and host, he features an array of guests that range from the elders who rightly wear the mantle of legend and star, to the emerging talents, set to shape and define the content of the future.
As an actor his work has encompassed theatre, television and film. Theatre roles include My Fair Lady, Only Heaven Knows, The Magic Faraway Tree, Winnie the Pooh, Puff the Magic Dragon and Noddy in Toyland, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Manning Clarke’s History of Australia – The Musical, Twelfth Night, Noises Off, The Voyage of Mary Bryant, The Judgement of Paris, Rags, Grand Hotel, The Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, An Ideal Husband, Fallen Angels, Annie, Godspell, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Merrily We Roll Along, La Cage aux Folles, Rope, On Golden Pond, Privates on Parade, Harvest, Australia Day and The Real Thing.
Television includes Backberner, Water Rats, Farscape, Home and Away, A Difficult Woman, Corridors of Power and the film Danny Deckchair.
As a director his productions include Travelling North, The Music Man, Dinkum Assorted, Annie Get Your Gun, Summer of the Aliens, The Crucible, The Visit, Pygmalion, Rags, Clinchfield, Away, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Seventeen, Beach – a theatrical fantasia, Under Milkwood, Luke Lloyd: Alienoid, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bluebottles, Away, The Shape of Things and Our Town.
He has hosted Gala Variety Performances for Hats Off and World AIDS Day. For several years he co-hosted with Vanessa Wagner, the Glam Stand at the Sydney Mardi Gras for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation.
A new Stages episode is ‘dropped’ weekly and in 2021, Stages enters its fourth season.