Peter Goers

Peter Goers
Peter Goers conducting a live public radio broadcast, 2009.
Born	28 July 1956 Adelaide, South Australia
Show	The Evening Show
Station(s)	891 ABC Adelaide
Network	Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Time slot	7:00 pm weekdays
Style	Talkback
Country	Australia

Peter Goers, OAM is an actor, director, reviewer and current host of the radio program The Evening Show on 891 ABC Adelaide, which broadcasts throughout South Australia and to the city of Broken Hill. His career has spanned over 40 years in the entertainment industry across a range of different mediums and formats including television, print, radio and theatre, and he is frequently engaged as a guest speaker. In the Australia Day Honours, 2013, Goers was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).

Goers was born in Adelaide, raised in Woodville South and educated at both Woodville Primary and Findon High schools. Goers is a fifth-generation Australian of German and Irish descent. An influence in Goers' early life was teacher and former South Adelaide footballer Mick Rivers, who encouraged his interest in acting. Upon completion of his secondary schooling, Goers studied arts at Flinders University for eight years.

On 9 July 1982, both his parents were killed in a plane accident involving Pan Am Flight 759 which crashed shortly after takeoff from New Orleans.

In 1983, Goers started reviewing films for radio host Carole Whitelock on the then named 5AN for the ABC, which led to commercial contracts, including 5DN and ten years at the Austereo Radio Network.

Goers worked as full-time Historian of the Performing Arts Collection of South Australia with the South Australian director Colin Ballantyne. Having debuted as the Artful Dodger in "Oliver!" at the Woodville Town Hall in 1972, Goers worked in the theatre in Adelaide as actor, director, designer, playwright for most Adelaide theatre companies including as Artistic Director of the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild (1982–86). He won an "Advertiser" Fringe Award, and he is the only director with four plays in Adelaide on one night – in interlocking seasons.