Paul is currently Artistic Director of the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. He graduated with BA (Hons) Theatre Directing from Rose Bruford College.
Awards and Nominations
2024 The Stage Award for Theatre of the Year for The Watermill Theatre
2024 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Regional Production for The Lord Of The Rings, The Watermill Theatre
2024 Listed in The Stage 100
2023 Broadway World UK Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Lord Of The Rings, The Watermill Theatre
2023 Broadway World UK Award for Best Direction of a New Production of a Play for Notes From A Small Island, The Watermill Theatre
List Of Productions
2024
THE LORD OF THE RINGS | Chicago, US/ Sydney, Australia/ Auckland, New Zealand
MUCH ADO AOUT NOTHING | Watermill Theatre
2023
THE LORD OF THE RINGS | Watermill Theatre
NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLAND | Watermill Theatre
2022
SPIKE | Watermill Theatre & UK Tour
OTHELLO | Watermill Theatre
2021
AS YOU LIKE IT | Watermill Theatre
2020
CAMELOT IN CONCERT | Watermill Theatre/ Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM & MACBETH | Wilton's Music Hall
2019
KISS ME, KATE | Watermill Theatre/ Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
SWEET CHARITY | Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
MACBETH | UK Tour
2018
SWEET CHARITY | Watermill Theatre
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | Watermill Theatre
2017
CRAZY FOR YOU | UK Tour
THE BORROWERS | Watermill Theatre / Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
TWELFTH NIGHT | Watermill Theatre/ Wilton's Music Hall/ UK Tour
2016
CRAZY FOR YOU | Watermill Theatre
ROMEO AND JULIET | Watermill Theatre
2015
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BABES IN THE WOOD | City Varieties Music Hall Leeds
JULIUS CAESAR | Oxford Drama School
2014
YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL | Pentabus
DICK WHITTINGTON | National Youth Theatre / Ambassadors Theatre
PRIVATE PEACEFUL | National Youth Theatre / Ambassadors Theatre
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | Rose Bruford College
JOURNEY’S END | Watermill Theatre
POCKET HENRY V | Associate Director | Propeller
THE MARLOW SOCIETY SHOWCASE | Cambridge / London
2013
THE ESSAY | Radio 3 – Existentialism Season
POPE JOAN | National Youth Theatre
REVENGER’S TRAGEDY | LAMDA
POCKET MERCHANT | Associate Director | Propeller
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST | Rose Bruford College
DOCTOR FAUSTUS | National Theatre Studio
THE CAPTAIN OF KÖPENICK | as Staff Director | National Theatre
PREVIOUS THEATRE
THE TEMPEST | Watermill Theatre
HUIS CLOS | Trafalgar Studios
GREAT EXPECTATIONS | Watermill Theatre
HEROES | Watermill Theatre
ROMEO AND JULIET | UK Tour
SLEEPING BEAUTY | UK Tour
THE NATURAL CAUSE | Battersea Arts Centre
MEASURE FOR MEASURE | Pleasance Theatre
TWELFTH NIGHT | UK Tour
THE TEMPEST | Theatre in Education Tour
OTHELLO | Regional Tour
CLOUDS | Regional Tour
WASPS | Regional Tour
AS ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
RED | As Associate Director | Dir: Michael Grandage | John Golden Theatre, Broadway
AS RESIDENT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AT THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE
DIMETOS | Director: Douglas Hodge
A DOLL’S HOUSE | Director: Kfir Yeffet
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Rob Ashford
LIFE IS A DREAM | Director: Jonathan Munby
RED | Director: Michael Grandage
AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR EDWARD HALL'S PROPELLER COMPANY
HENRY V & THE WINTER’S TALE
RICHARD III and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Paul has worked as Assistant Director to Fiona Laird at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End has worked as Assistant Director to Jonathan Kent on THE SEA at Theatre Royal Haymarket.