Episode 4
Whispers in the Storm
NLM producer: Tanya Lee, Narrator: Peter Cousens, Composer and Story teller: Maggie Bell
Peter Cousens AM | Australian Actor
Peter is currently the artistic director of the Talent Development Project. He has worked in television, both as an actor and presenter. In the 1980s he guest starred in a number of major Australian television productions, including The Timeless Land, Earth Watch, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and The Restless Years. He then went on to take leading roles in Under Capricorn and Return to Eden.
Peter is also known for his work in musical theatre. Major roles include The Phantom in London's West End production of The Phantom of the Opera; he also portrayed Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Tony in West Side Story, Bobby in Company, Nanki Poo in The Mikado, Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Chris in Miss Saigon in the Australian productions. Cousens appeared in the 2015 television opera The Divorce. He has received a number of Variety Club of Australia awards for his work.
Peter has been featured on a number of cast albums, including as Chris on the International Symphonic Recording of Miss Saigon, and as Charles Makin on the original cast album for Australian musical The Hatpin.
In September 2006 he launched Kookaburra: The National Musical Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company based in Australia, dedicated to musical theatre. The company closed in 2009.
In 2012–13, Peter produced and directed Freedom, starring Cuba Gooding Jr, William Sadler and Sharon Leal.
B.D. (NIDA), M.A. (CQU)
Cert IV (T&A)
Artistic Director - Talent Development Project
Ambassador - Neurological Research Australia (NeuRA)
Artistic Ambassador - CQU Conservatorium of Music
Patron - Freedom Hub