PETER DELAUNAY read Law, briefly, at Leicester University but spent more time writing film reviews for the student newspaper and acting in plays before writing and directing a short film using the Engineering Dept’s 16mm Bolex. A week’s filmmaking course at the Cork Film Festival convinced him that his future lay in the movies. But after gaining a place at the London Film School he turned it down in favour of working as a student stage manager at the Royal Court, then directed by Lindsay Anderson and Oscar Lewenstein.
In the theatre Peter was an assistant director at the Royal Court, co-directed a West End production with Donald Howarth and directed in rep, on the fringe and off-off-off Broadway. He was a follow-spot operator on the original production of The Rocky Horror Show, lighting designer for a dance season at The Place theatre and production assistant/company manager with Andy Phillips and Glenda Jackson’s Bullfinch Productions.
In between theatrical engagements he gravitated back to film with experience as a fourth assistant director on commercials, assistant editor on documentaries and a long spell as a producer’s assistant for a feature film production company that failed to produce. Since 1980 Peter has written nine screenplays and treatments. He scripted four episodes of ‘Kismet Road’, an Asian medical drama series broadcast on The Community Channel early in 2004. He has also worked as a freelance researcher, research coordinator, scriptwriter and associate producer for most of the regional ITV companies, BBC1 & 2, and independent production companies including Action Time and Noel Gay TV. In 1992 he attended Robert McKee’s ‘Story’ lecture series in London.
Peter has also, among many temporary engagements, designed knitwear in New Jersey, abridged more than twenty audio books, written a dozen industrial films and ghost-written a ‘faction’ novel, an autobiography and speeches for US Vice-President Walter Mondale.
Peter has lived in Cornwall since 1989 and Truro since 2006.
Until July 2013 Peter was a lecturer at Truro College where he was the Course Leader of the Foundation Degree in Advertising.
Cornwall Film financed the writing of his feature length screenplay ‘Dragonfly’, a coming-of-age story set in west Cornwall during the long hot summer of 1966. An excerpt of Dragonfly was selected for a rehearsed reading at the 2003 Cornwall Film Festival. The screenplay was revised in 2017.
In 2010 his first stage play “The Nose & The Face”, partly inspired by his experiences working in the fashion industry, had a public reading at The White Bear Theatre, Southwark. He adapted the script for a radio production co-produced by Mundic Nation Productions & University College Falmouth, You can listen to an excerpt of the recording on the 'Plays' page.
His screenplay, Express Yourself, won a Short Film Screenplay Award at the 2012 Los Angeles Neo-Noir & Erotic Film Festival. And in 2014 I took the finished film back to the Los Angeles Neo-Noir Festival - you can see the film here
His book 'The Rabbit, The Cat & The Woman' with illustrations by Susannah Lewis is currently available here
In 2018 he formed Snufflegrin Books with Susannah Lewis - about which you can read more here
In the theatre Peter was an assistant director at the Royal Court, co-directed a West End production with Donald Howarth and directed in rep, on the fringe and off-off-off Broadway. He was a follow-spot operator on the original production of The Rocky Horror Show, lighting designer for a dance season at The Place theatre and production assistant/company manager with Andy Phillips and Glenda Jackson’s Bullfinch Productions.
In between theatrical engagements he gravitated back to film with experience as a fourth assistant director on commercials, assistant editor on documentaries and a long spell as a producer’s assistant for a feature film production company that failed to produce. Since 1980 Peter has written nine screenplays and treatments. He scripted four episodes of ‘Kismet Road’, an Asian medical drama series broadcast on The Community Channel early in 2004. He has also worked as a freelance researcher, research coordinator, scriptwriter and associate producer for most of the regional ITV companies, BBC1 & 2, and independent production companies including Action Time and Noel Gay TV. In 1992 he attended Robert McKee’s ‘Story’ lecture series in London.
Peter has also, among many temporary engagements, designed knitwear in New Jersey, abridged more than twenty audio books, written a dozen industrial films and ghost-written a ‘faction’ novel, an autobiography and speeches for US Vice-President Walter Mondale.
Peter has lived in Cornwall since 1989 and Truro since 2006.
Until July 2013 Peter was a lecturer at Truro College where he was the Course Leader of the Foundation Degree in Advertising.
Cornwall Film financed the writing of his feature length screenplay ‘Dragonfly’, a coming-of-age story set in west Cornwall during the long hot summer of 1966. An excerpt of Dragonfly was selected for a rehearsed reading at the 2003 Cornwall Film Festival. The screenplay was revised in 2017.
In 2010 his first stage play “The Nose & The Face”, partly inspired by his experiences working in the fashion industry, had a public reading at The White Bear Theatre, Southwark. He adapted the script for a radio production co-produced by Mundic Nation Productions & University College Falmouth, You can listen to an excerpt of the recording on the 'Plays' page.
His screenplay, Express Yourself, won a Short Film Screenplay Award at the 2012 Los Angeles Neo-Noir & Erotic Film Festival. And in 2014 I took the finished film back to the Los Angeles Neo-Noir Festival - you can see the film here
His book 'The Rabbit, The Cat & The Woman' with illustrations by Susannah Lewis is currently available here
In 2018 he formed Snufflegrin Books with Susannah Lewis - about which you can read more here