Pantazi Terzian

Pantazi is a queer neurodivergent actor and maker of Egyptian-Armenian & Greek ancestry. He is a graduate of 16th Street Actors Studios and Ward Studios NYC. Alongside his creative practice Pantazi works in the disability sector as a support worker for a NFP.

Selected theatre credits include; Shhhh, Playlist 2017 (Red Stitch Theatre); Home, I’m Darling, Gloria, Minnie & Liraz (Melbourne Theatre Company); Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise, The Sovereign Wife (Melbourne Theatre Company NEON); Homo Pentacoustous (Malthouse Theatre/PICA); Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); Salomé (Malthouse Theatre HELIUM); Mature Skin, Merciless Gods (Darebin Arts Speakeasy); 8/8/8: WORK (RISING Festival); The Audition (Outer Urban Projects) and The Economist (Brisbane Powerhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

Film and television credits include; The Taverna (Rescued Films); Paper Champions (Saliba Pictures/Exile Entertainment); Rebooted (Latenite Films); Holding the Man (Screen Australia); Sisters (Network Ten) and Fake (Paramount+).

Pantazi is a Greenroom award nominee (Best Supporting Actor - Main Stage 2019) and winner (Best Ensemble - Contemporary & Experimental Performance 2023; Best Ensemble & Show - Independent Theatre 2014).

Pantazi recently reclaimed his ethnic first name and maternal surname. Previous works are credited as Peter Paltos.