#175 |Halloween Special| Peter Dunne

Today joining our Host Georgina McKevitt (@itsgeorginamckevitt) is Lover of all things spooky and scary, Peter Dunne. Peter is an award-winning writer, playwright, producer, creator of audiodramas, podcasts and unusual experiences. Irish Theatre Magazine described his work as “New Irish writing at its best”, Visit Dublin called him “One of Ireland’s most interesting and innovative talents” while Headstuff called his theatre work “brilliant and innovative.” For his horror anthology podcast Petrified, he won a New York Radio Award and an Irish Podcast Award for drama series and recently made the move into live shows at the London Podcast Festival. He co-created two podcast and radio series for RTÉjr - The Living Library and Spooky FM - also an award winner at the Irish Podcast Awards. For the Bram Stoker Festival, he created the audio horror experiences Eerie and Bram, as well as Instaterror - the world’s first ghost story to take place completely on Instagram. He made his graphic comics debut in 2020 with the queer horror story Abomination by Hey Dorothy comics Straddling the worlds of horror and comedy, his plays have been staged at the Abbey Theatre, Project Arts Centre, Bewleys Café Theatre, Dublin Castle and Smock Alley Theatre amongst others. For his theatre work he has been nominated for the Spirit of Wit Award and the Georganne Aldrich Heller Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival. This Halloween, Peter will team up with Dacre Stoker for Stoker On Stoker, looking at the work of the legendary creator of Dracula. FNI Wrapchat is Produced by PBL, Paul Webster and Edited and Mixed by Mark Monks in the heart of Dublin City Centre at the Podcast Studios. https://www.thepodcaststudios.ie/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Film Network Ireland at https://wearefni.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/filmnetworkireland https://twitter.com/fni_film https://www.instagram.com/filmnetworkireland ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support Film Network Ireland at BuyMeACoffee.com/fni -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------