- Paul is a stage director whose work spans theatre, musical-theatre and opera. He just remounted his production of Mata Hari in Berkeley, California with West Edge Opera. He has joined the team at URBANARIAS as the Artistic Administrator, 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. In 2016 he directed Giuseppe Verdi's grand opera Il Trovatore for Hawaii Opera Theatre.
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. Canada; Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo and Amon Miyamoto's production of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul for Vancouver Opera. 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 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 next eight months are very exciting as I will have my Kennedy Center debut directing Niccolo Jommelli's Cerere Placata for OPERA LAFAYETTE in October. In winter and spring I have three productions, the first in January I'll be directing a semi-staged production of my late friend, Matt Marks' "post-christian nihilist pop-opera" Little Death Vol. 1 for the PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL. Then in March 2019 I will return to UTAH OPERA to direct Mozart's Magic Flute. Lastly, in May I will be directing the US premiere of Jonathan Dove's The Monster in the Maze for BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY.
BIOGRAPHY