Paul Nugent

Paul is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of AboutFACE, is the creator of the NEWvember New Plays Festival, and has performed in seven shows for the company. New York theatre includes The McGowan Trilogy (also UK premiere at Kino Teatr), The Biscuit Club, Blood, Dancing at Lunacy, Much Ado about Nothing (all with The Cell, resident artist), McGoldrick's Thread (80 St Marks), The Field (Irish Rep), Font of Knowledge, Something to Remember Me By (ArtHouse), Arrah-na-Pogue (Storm Theatre), Ladies & Gents (Irish Arts Center), Blood Guilty (1stIrish Festival), The Jungle Fun Room (FringeNYC). Other theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Ivoryton Playhouse), The Miracle Worker (Foothills Theatre), Capitalism: The Musical (Italian tour), and Never the Sinner (PurpleHearts). Paul recently made his directorial debut on Between the Dawns, part of the 2017 New Irish Playbook. TV/film includes “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Custer’s Last Stand-Up” (BBC) and the short The Long Wet Grass. Paul trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. For AboutFACE: All in the Timing, Tape, Boy Gets Girl, The Laramie Project, The Glory of Living, Almost, Maine, Orson Welles' Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play, NEWvember 2011-2017, Winter Pub Reading Series 2017, Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake (workshop).