Born in Nottingham Paul lives in Munich and is a British and German citizen
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Education: First class degree Bristol, University Drama Department
Artistic Director of TNT theatre, Artistic Director of the American Drama Group Europe
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Associate director of Teatro Espressivo de Costa Rica,
Regular director at Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
Formerly artistic director of South Yorkshire theatre workshop and
Bristol Gate theatre
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Visiting director at St Petersburg State Comedy theatre (Akimov), Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), Tams Theater München, Shanghai Farce Troupe, St Petersburg State Theatre Experimenta, Paragon Ensemble Glasgow, Glyptothek München
Awards include Arts Achievement award Singapore, Shandong theatre festival, Shanghai Comedy Festival, Dawn Arts Festival Tehran, Government of Costa Rica, Munich Biennale, Edinburgh Festival 5 stars and medal of inception into the order of the British Empire (MBE) at Buckingham Palace in the Queen's Birthday honours list 2014
As an actor Paul has performed for over 20 years in leading roles across the world
"Paul Stebbings is one of the great European clowns" The Guardian
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"Paul Stebbings has enormous stage presence": Village Voice, New York
Paul has directed in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Shanghaiese, French, Russian, Arabic, Greek, German and an invented sound-scape language
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As a playwright, usually working with Dramaturg Phil Smith, Paul has written over thirty professionally performed plays ranging from the original TNT production HARLEQUIN (1980) - a commedia dell 'arte about Meyerhold, Stanislavski, Stalin and the failure of artistic and political Revolution - to the recent FREE MANDELA, the struggle against apartheid from both Nelson and Winnie Mandelas perspective (2019-20)
Notable productions include:
Shakespeare plays
Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar
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Known Plays
Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pygmalion, Lord of the Flies
Original adaptations of prose/novels
Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, A Christmas Carol, The Ghost of Edgar Allen Poe, Notre Dame de Paris, Brave New World, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wave, Moon Palace, Don Quijote
Music theatre
Cabaret Faust, The Wizard of Jazz, Invisible Cities, The Musical Seminar
Original plays
Harlequin, Hitler killed my canary, Funny Money, My Sister Syria, Martin Luther King, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes, Free Mandela, The Charlie Chaplin Putsch
Interests
History, all arts, travel, beer, long distance cycling (These can all be combined)
