Mr Peter Elliott, ONZM, of Auckland, for services to the performing arts and baseball
Mr Peter Elliott, of Auckland, for services to the performing arts and baseball
Peter Elliott has been active in theatre, film and television since the 1980s as an actor, presenter, writer, and advocate for industry workers. He has been involved in creating more than 60 television dramas, more than a dozen documentaries, and more than 70 plays, musicals and operas. He has appeared in ‘Shortland Street’, ‘Gloss’, and Peter Jackson’s ‘Heavenly Creatures’. He has been a committee member for Actors Equity and has served on the boards of Equity New Zealand, Mixit and Baseball New Zealand. He was a member of Central City Baseball Club in Auckland, where he was Vice President, and contributed to the development of the Auckland Tuatara, New Zealand’s first professional baseball team. Mr Elliott has worked with city councils to allocate park land for baseball fields.