- Paul is a stage director whose work spans theatre, musical-theatre and opera. He just remounted his production of Mata Hari in Berlkley, California with West Edge Opera. His up-coming projects are Niccolo Jomelli's Cerere Placata his directing debut with Washington DC's OPERA LAFAYETTE, and in the spring of 2019 he will return to Opera Utah to direct Mozart's Magic Flute.
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
- It is with heavy heart that I write this. The sudden loss of my friend and collaborator Matt Marks has come as a shock. And I'm at loss for words. My heart goes out to his fiancee Mary, Matt's Family and the Music Community. We have lost a wonderful friend and a talented composer/musician whose future was so bright. It was a privilege and honor to have worked intimately on Mata Hari with Matt. I will miss you my friend.
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