Peter Hoggart

Detective Sergeant Troughton

Peter is delighted to be returning to Vienna’s English Theatre after touring A Picture (an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray) with the company in 2012.

After graduating from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2010, he toured Europe with White Horse Theatre playing Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Upon returning to the UK, he played Macbeth for the Young Shakespeare Company and appeared in the spoof detective comedy Stop! You’re Killing Me at the Soho Theatre with Hambledon Productions. He recently returned to Hambledon to direct and perform in the spoof-western: A Fistful of Spaghetti at the Leicester Square Theatre.

Peter also spent three consecutive seasons on the Suffolk coast with the Jill Freud Company appearing in Five Finger Exercise, An Inspector Calls, Not Now Darling, Sleuth and Noises Off.

In the past year, he has been working mostly with the comedy theatre company Oddsocks. Firstly appearing in britpop-musical versions ofTwelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing, before playing the title role in their winter tour of The Legend of King Arthur. Most recently he appeared at The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in 1001 Nights, an educational show about the Syrian refugee crisis.