Petra Elliott

Petra Elliott is an actor, singer and presenter, who currently spends most days as a game facilitator for Directors of Extraordinary and Great Race Australia, running team building events utilising escape room style puzzles and TV reality game show style challenges. In 2013 she co-hosted the Splendid Chaps podcast celebrating the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, which led to co-creating and starring in sci-fi time-travel comedy audio series Night Terrace (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra). Theatre highlights include Sissy (then) in Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Eve Ensler in The Vagina Monologues, Emilia in Othello, Belinda/Flavia in Noises Off, M’lynn in Steel Magnolias. Musicals including Godspell, Cabaret and Les Miserablés, multiple roles in He Died With a Felafel In His Hand, the title role in Peter Pan, Inside Out at La Mama, and Who Killed John Bearington III? and the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). She debuted her first solo cabaret show, Petrasexual, in 2014 with return seasons at the Butterfly Club and Adelaide Fringe. In 2015 Petra played Joan Baez in The Road To Woodstock (Chapel Off Chapel) and filmed supernatural television drama Sonnigsburg, later nominated for Best Narrative and/or Fictional program at the 2019 Antenna Awards. As a puppeteer and improviser she was part of The Mighty Little Puppet Show, with multiple story formats at MICF, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe festivals. The ABC invited her to appear on Whovians to discuss the Twelfth doctor’s performance in Oxygen, in an episode that aired on May 14, 2017.