Director

Paul is a theatre director, musical director, and teacher who has worked in the United States, in Québec and Canada, in Ireland, Italy, Germany and The Netherlands.

He was born in the United States, where he studied at the University of Michigan. He continued his musical education in Montreal, where he was Music Director and Resident Composer at the National Theatre School of Canada and singing teacher at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal.

Amongst his theatre direction: Berliner Songspiel, Le Petit Mahagonny et Neues Songspiel (Les Productions de la lune verte) ; Vie et mort du roi boiteux (Centre national des arts du Canada—La compagnie française) ; Il n’y a nulle part en Amérique (Zeitgeist) ; The Voice in the Mirror: the Strange Experiments of Doctor Frank (National Theatre School of Canada).

His musical compositions for the theatre include: Il n’y a nulle part en Amérique (Zeitgeist) ; Sons and Daughters and The Wolf in Winter (The Peacock Theatre Dublin) ; Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey Theatre Dublin) ; A Christmas Carol (The Gate Theatre, Dublin) ; The Company of Wolves (Samuel Beckett Theatre and The Arezzo Festival) ; The Caucasian Chalk Circle (B. Brecht) ; The Cat (Edward Bond) ; Lysistrata (Aristophanes) ;and Récital gala de Mme Célinyre Campeau (René-Daniel Dubois—Radio Canada).

In Ireland he was lecturer in Theatre Studies (singing, text and theatre practice) in the Trinity College School of Drama. Also in Ireland he led many workshops in singing and voice in the Queen’s University Belfast, at the Abbey Theatre, the Dublin Corporation and the Drama League of Ireland. In Dublin he was a founding member of the cabaret company Songspiel. In 2004 he joined the Accademia dell’arte in Arezzo Italy as associate artist, where he taught masterclasses and directed numerous cabaret performances. In the same period he was permanent guest professor at the Berliner Schule für Schauspiel.

Since returning to Montreal in 2015, he teaches at the École supérieure de théâtre of the Université du Québec à Montréal.