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- Paul is a stage director whose work spans theatre, musical-theatre and opera. He is currently the Artistic Administrator at URBANARIAS, working with Executive and Artistic Director, Robert Wood in commissioning, presenting and producing new chamber sized opera in the Washington DC area. His opera directing debut was Haendel's Xerxes for Grammy nominated Boston Baroque. He directed Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at the Alexander Kasser Theater, New Jersey and was invited back again to Boston Baroque to direct Haendel's rarely performed Amadigi di Gaula. He has directed for regional and international companies; Vancouver Opera, Utah Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, West Edge Opera and Pocket Opera New York to name a few.
Paul's international directing credits are: Australia; David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross for the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Shakespeare's King Lear for Lightning Strike Theatre Company, Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, Menken and Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors for Adelaide College of Arts. Germany; Geoeffnet for the Dosto Projekt in Berlin. In 2017, Paul completed his residency at the HERE ARTS CENTER, New York where he created and developed in collaboration with the late composer MATT MARKS a new opera-theatre piece about the courtesan spy Mata Hari, which premiered in the Prototype Festival in January 2017.
CURRENT NEWS
- The spring of 2019 will be busy, as I will be directing Urban Arias' Opera Improv Team with the celebrated improv team JiveTurkey in two cabaret performances at Busboys and Poets, click. HERE for details. Also, on May 12, I will be directing the US premiere of Jonathan Dove's The Monster in the Maze for BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY.
- This summer URBANARIAS will be presenting Elvis Costello's JULIET LETTERS, directed by Cara Gabriel at Arlington's Signature Theatre's Ark Space with Robert Wood conducting Baltimore's Inscape Chamber Orchestra featuring Aryssa Burrs, Melissa Wimbish and Robert Wes Mason.
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