Pete Gallagher
Musical Theatre Dance Teacher
Musical Theatre
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance King Charles Court Old Royal Naval College London SE10 9JF
Biography
Pete has directed dozens of productions – drama, musicals, comedies and variety – including the award nominated UK tour of Spring Awakening and critically acclaimed gothic punk A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Chelsea. At the age of 25, he took charge of the legendary Corona Academy in London and has since been Director of Musical Theatre or Head of Drama in several others. He was a director of Miscellany Theatre Co. and co-founded GAJIT, a theatre master-class company.
DIRECTING CREDITS:
Meet at the Ark at Eight – Tsitsit Festival, London, Resident Director Only Fools and Horses – Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Addams Family – Iab, Barcelona, God – The Untold Story – King’s Head, Just So – Simply Theatre, Zurich, A Teenage Opera – Ambassadors Lounge, Bachelor Girls – Plymouth and Weston-super-mare, Chasing the Dream – Britain’s Got Talent, ITV, Spring Awakening – UK Tour (Nominated Best Musical Production), Pieces of String – Park Theatre, The Homefront – Union Theatre, Great Expectations – Shaw Theatre, The Brothers Lionheart and Missing Mel – Edinburgh Festival, NEWLEY: the Fool Who Dared to Dream – Highgate, Lucky Stiff, Cabaret and Godspell – Gsa, Merrily We Roll Along and Private Lives – Arts Ed, London and Many Others.
RESIDENT DRAMA COACH:
Any Dream Will Do for BBC1 training aspiring Josephs in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s TV talent show, as well as drama coach on Strictly Come Dancing, Sky TV’s Gladiators and Radio 2’s Voice of Musical Theatre.
THEATRE AS A PERFORMER:
Only Fools & Horses, Don’t Dress For Dinner, The Braille Legacy, Shock Treatment, Jesus Christ Superstar (West End and Arena Tour), A Winter’s Tale, The Fix, Moonlight & Magnolias, Pirates of Penzance, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Betrayal, Guys & Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Dr Dolittle, The Rocky Horror Show, The Mystery Plays, Buddy, Fields Of Ambrosia, Frankenstein, Up On The Roof, Lautrec, and many others.
FILM / TV INCLUDES;
Jesus Christ Superstar (2 films), Sarah & Duck (voice of ‘Moon’), Nuzzle & Scratch, My Hero, Casualty, Waking the Dead, Lunar Girl, Mrs Bradley Mysteries, The Two Of Us, Moon & Son and Bergerac.
WRITING:
A Teenage Opera, Fanny Hill, Feelin’ Good -The Anthony Newley Story, Chasing The Dream and Face2Face with Danny Davies, The Cryptic Lines and The Brothers Lionheart with Richard Storry, The Black Book and The One with Simon Henderson, and solo projects Gribblum Tales, The Christmas Shop, Tongues and What Goes Around.
Pete Gallagher
Actor, Director, Writer
Director: House of Gulliver Ltd.