RESUME

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DIRECTING

  • The Nobodies Who Were Everybody* - Conceiver, Director - Jalopy Theater, NYC
  • Occupy Prescott* - Director - Jalopy Tavern, NYC
  • The Debates 2021* - Conceiver, Director - Online due to CoViD-19
  • The Debates 2020* - Conceiver, Director - Online due to CoViD-19
  • Becky Knows What Sex Is - By Emery Schaffer - Brunch Theatre, NYC
  • Hephaestus - By Willie Johnson - LPAC Rough Draft Festival
  • The Whale, The Bird... - By Charlotte Martin - Brunch Theatre, NYC
  • Totally Wholesome Foods* - By Alice Pencavel - The Episcopal Actors' Guild, NYC
  • Sight Unbound - By Alice Pencavel - The Cherry Lane Theater, NYC
  • The Debates 2018* - Conceiver, Director - The Drama League, NYC
  • Heifer - By Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Schapiro Theater at Columbia University, NYC 
  • Daphne - By Alice Pencavel, IRT Theatre, NYC
  • The Break - By Drew Morrison, The X Theater at the University of New Mexico
  • The Glowing Boot - By Alice Pencavel - The United Solo Festival, NYC; Port Fringe, Portland, ME
  • The Debates 2016* - Conceiver, Director - The Kraine Theatre, NYC; Hartford Carriage House Theater; William Way Center, Philadelphia; Butler University; Muhlenberg College
  • The Infernal Machine - By Jean Cocteau - Hangar Theatre WEDGE, Ithaca, NY
  • The Emperor's New Clothes - Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty - Hangar Theatre KIDDSTUFF, Ithaca, NY
  • ¡Olé!* - Conceiver, Director - Under St. Marks Theater, NYC; Chicago Fringe Festival (Voted: Audience Favorite); Hartford Carriage House Theater; Rochester Fringe (Awarded: Best Touring); Prague Fringe Festival (Nomination: Creative Award)
  • North - By Ran Xia; Dixon Place, NYC
  • #Coriolanus* - By William Shakespeare; Adaptor, Director - Under St. Marks Theater, NYC
  • Revolution in 1* - Co-creator, Director - The Red Room Theater, NYC
  • Frankenstein* - Co-creator, Director - Looking Glass Theatre, NYC
  • Nijinsky in Asylum* - Conceiver, Director - Steps Theater, NYC 
  • Suddenly Last Summer - By Tennessee Williams; Robert Moss Theatre, NYU, NYC

THEATER IN ASYLUM

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Artistic Director and co-founder of Theater in Asylum (TIA), a New York-based theater company founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. TIA joyfully pursues rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.

In the above list, * denotes a Theater in Asylum production.

theaterinasylum.com

BREAD & PUPPET THEATER

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Puppeteer and Tour Booker for the Bread & Puppet Theater. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit political theatre companies in the country. The frequently touring company presents shows shows ranging from tightly composed theater pieces to extensive outdoor pageants which require the participation of many volunteers. As its founder has said, "We have two types of puppet shows: good ones and bad ones, but all of them are for good and against evil."

Paul performs with and books tours for Bread & Puppet.  For booking inquiries, please email Paul here.

breadandpuppet.org

PERFORMANCE WITH BREAD & PUPPET THEATER

All shows directed by Peter Schumann
  • The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus - Northeast & Midwest Tour (40 shows)
  • The Hope Principle Show - Northeast Tour (23 shows)
  • The Palestine Emergency Mass - Texas Tour (Houston, Austin, San Antonio)
  • The Mother Dirt Mass - Theatre for the New City, NYC
  • The Idiots of the World Unite Circus - Theatre for the New City, NYC
  • The Heart of the Matter Circus - Northeast Tour (10 shows)
  • Inflammatory Earthling Rants with Help from Kropotkin - Northeast Tour (22 shows), Midwest & Canada Tour (12 shows)
  • The Apocalypse Defiance Circus - US National Tour (79 shows)
  • The Persians - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT​; Theatre for the New City, NYC
  • The Or / Else Opera - Theatre for the New City, NYC
  • The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT​
  • Out of Joint Hamlet - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT
  • Diagonal Life: Theory & Praxis - Northeast Tour
  • Emma - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT
  • The Diagonal Life Circus & Normality Rebellion Pageant - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT​ + touring
  • Insurrection Resurrection Services - The Bread and Puppet Theater, VT​ + touring
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The Hope Principle Show, April 2024. Photo by Greg Cook.

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

  • A Bright Room Called Day - Dir: Scott Ebersold, Columbia MFA Thesis, Connelly Theater

WRITING

  • "From the Toes Up" - A piece on Bread and Puppet's Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, published January 2023 in the Performing Arts Journal

VOLUNTEERING

  • The Back to Work Collective - Founder, Organizer
  • Democratic Socialists of America - Organizer, Educator
  • Cold Readings - Organizer and co-curator of a reading group for theater-lovers

EDUCATION

  • New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY - BFA Theater, 2010
  • Playwrights Horizons Theater School: Directing & Creating Original Work (C.O.W.)
  • Universidad de la Habana, Cuba - Independent Study: Government & the Arts​​

TRAINING

  • Directing – Lisa Peterson, Ruben Polendo, Fritz Ertl, Mary Robinson, Seth Barrish
  • Devised Theater / Devised Directing - John Collins, Rachel Chavkin, Tomi Tsunoda
  • Viewpoints - Anne Bogart, Theresa McCarthy, Linda Napoletano, master classes with Anne Bogart
  • Theatre of the Oppressed - George Emilio Sanchez, Geo Britto
  • Dance and Choreography – Marleen Pennison, Peter Bass, Morgan Murphey, Maura Gahan
  • Design – Michael Krass, Jo Winiarski
  • ​Puppetry - Peter Schumann, Clare Dolan, Lily Lamberta
  • Playwriting – Jeni Mahoney
  • Acting – Elizabeth Hess, Michael Ball, Maggie Low
  • Production and Stage Management - Justin Ball

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

  • Apprenticeship with The Bread and Puppet Theater, 2018
  • Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2017: Theater in a Time of Change
  • Drama League Directing Fellow: 2015 Hangar Theatre Program
  • Candidate for the SDC Observership Program, 2016-2017 Season

TEACHING

  • Devising Theater from Pre-existing Texts - Hangar Theater, Ithaca, NY - 2015 Taught 2015 Lab Company Members methods and techniques for creating original theater from pre-existing textual sources other than plays (novels, poetry, news, transcripts, etc).
  • Devising Theater from Political Transcripts - Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA - 2016 Guest artist to teach a workshop on theatrical mimicry and adaptation using Political Transcripts. This workshop was taught alongside TIA’s tour of The Debates. 

OTHER WORK

  • The Episcopal Actors' Guild (EAG), NYC, House Manager, Client Services, 2019-present
  • St. Ann’s Warehouse, NYC, House Manager, Usher, 2012-present
  • French Institute (FIAF), NYC, Events Coordinator, House Manager, Caterer, Usher, 2011-2022
  • Playgarden, Tribeca & UES NYC, Manager, Branding, Design, Opener, 2007-2017