Paul Hunter

Told by an Idiot credits:

AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON (Drum Theatre Plymouth/Barbican/Brighton Festival), SIX SEEDS (National Theatre), THE DARK PHILOSOPHERS (National Theatre Wales), THE FAHRENHEIT TWINS (Drum Theatre Plymouth/Unity Theatre/barbicanbite09), THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (RSC), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, CASANOVA, ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODING, I’M SO BIG, YOU HAVEN’T EMBRACED ME YET, DON’T LAUGH IT’S MY LIFE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR DEKA D.

Acting (other credits):

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE GLOBE MYSTERIES, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Shakespeare’s Globe), RAPUNZEL and THE RED SHOES (Kneehigh), UNDER THE BLACK FLAG (Shakespeare’s Globe), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Belgrade, Coventry), THE WATER ENGINE (Young Vic/Theatre 503), THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE (West End), OLIVER TWIST and PINOCCHIO (Lyric Hammersmith), INTO OUR DREAMS (Almeida), the title role in RICHARD III (English Shakespeare Company), ANIMAL FARM and Sir Toby Belch in TWELTH NIGHT (Northern Stage), LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (RSC), the title role in THE SERVANT WITH TWO MASTERS (Sheffield Crucible), BALDY HOPKINS (The Right Size), POPEYE (David Glass Ensemble), THE WASP FACTORY (Glasgow Citizens) and HANGING AROUND (Trestle Theatre Company).

Directing credits:

As Associate Director at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, Paul Hunter directed: THE VENETIAN TWINS, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE (Best Production, Manchester Evening News Award), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST and CLEO, CAMPING EMMANUEL AND DICK. Other directing credits include: LOW PAY, DON’T PAY (Salisbury Playhouse), SENORA CARRAR’S RIFLES (Young Vic), NOT WITH THAT HAND (BAC), ORDAGO (for Punto Finco in Bilbao), THE MAD MAYOR OF MUNSTER (Actors Ensemble, Liverpool), THE OPIUM EATERS and LIGHT AT NIGHT (Brouhaha), movement director on Goldoni’s THE LOVERS (Gate Theatre). Creator and performer in Radio 4 sitcom pilot THE NEWBURY ARMS.

Television credits:

TRINITY, BLACK BOOKS, MY FAMILY, HARDWARE and TUNNEL OF LOVE

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