About Us
JDR Media is working with existing JDResources clients, to grow their businesses by producing exciting and innovative media products to help them market their merchandise or services and expand their customer base.
Additionally, we work with new clients who feel we can help them to achieve maximum exposure in the marketplace.
Biography: Peter McGowan, Media Coordinator for JDResources Media.
Peter is a UK citizen who was educated in England and Wales. He attended the Welsh College of Music & Drama, followed by the University of Wales, where he received a Post-Grad Teaching qualification in Performing Arts.
He moved to London and appeared in the movie ‘The Great Gatsby’ with Robert Redford, subsequently working for 2 years with the BBC Radio Repertory company as a Voice Actor and Presenter of Radio documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.
His classic theatre credits include Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I, Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar.
He worked then in theatres around the UK appearing in productions of My Fair Lady, Le Misanthrope, Candida (G B Shaw), Loot (Joe Orton) and The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens).
He lectured in the early 90’s at Newcastle College, to degree level in Performing Arts and Media Studies.
His TV work has included appearances in the UK BBC’s TV series such as Dr. Who, Cardiac Arrest, Our Friends in The North, Byker Grove, The Famous Five, Emmerdale and Heartbeat. He also played the title role, in a TV drama for Channel 4 UK, about the life of Railway entrepreneur, George Stephenson.
Peter spent 3 years as a Theatrical Agent, representing Actors, Presenters and Film Script Writers.
He worked for the last 10 years as a freelance Actor, Voice-over Artist and Presenter for Radio and TV commercials, as well as, working with banking corporations on middle/senior management communication skills and as a workshop leader on motivation techniques.
His recent work for JDResources Media includes producing and directing the narration for 16 staff training films both in English and French for a major US Oil Company.
Peter moved to Santa Monica, California in November 2011, to add a Los Angeles office to the Memphis-based operation of JDR Media.