Paul has substantial business experience over a wide range of different industry sectors including renewables, finance, digital media, entertainment and the food sector.
Paul has procured, developed and delivered financing for renewable energy opportunities, the environmental and social impact sectors and entertainment/media opportunities. Paul is currently handling the advertising for national tours of Brendan Cole, Moscow City Ballet and St Petersburg Classic Ballet. Paul is also working on a number of projects in the environmental and social impact sectors, entertainment sector and is developing film, TV and media projects through the new entity The Production Place. Most recently, Paul managed the strategy and release of the film Property of The State which screened at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2016. The feature was released in RoI and NI on 27 October 2017 and is now available on iTunes, Virgin Media, and Sky amongst others.
Paul is a Trustee of Social Farms & Gardens (formerly The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens which merged with Care Farming UK on 1 April 2018); Chair of the William Hobbayne Community Gardens Association in West London; Chair of the Billets Hart Allotments Association in West London; and a supporter through shares of Seed Co-operative, the UK's community owned seed company.
Previously Paul’s primary field of involvement had been assisting individuals establish and expand businesses, holding roles as Managing Director and Board Director within these businesses.. He continues to act as a Consultant/Advisor through his own consultancy which he formed in May 2000. Initially Paul consulted within the theatre and entertainment industry until expanding the client base to include personal press management and the business development, management, production and representation of start-ups, events and consumer products.
Paul remains significantly involved in a number of businesses including EnyGen which is engaged in delivering sustainable social and environmental impact within the commercial sector. Paul is also co-founder with Warren Heal of RentMyItems.com – the household items rental site, and Director of Shaisden Renovations Limited which owns and manages a small property portfolio in Aldershot. Additionally, Paul is Associate Producer of the play To Begin With… by Jeffrey Hatcher and starring Gerald Dickens,.which is scheduled to tour the UK in 2018 having premiered in Minneapolis in 2015.
From 1996 through 2000 Paul was Director of Marketing for theatre and film producer Bill Kenwright Limited which is one of the UK’s leading film, theatre and entertainment production companies. Following leaving Bill Kenwright Limited, Paul continued to work in theatre and entertainment with an extensive client and production list of touring, West End, Fringe and international productions – more details of Paul’s theatre work can be found below.
THEATRE
Production credits include Cloud Ten Productions’ The Fall & Rise of Lenny Smallman, and readings of Skeletons and A Good Place For Fishing, all written by Richard Lumsden. Other theatre producing credits for Paul include Beau Brummell and Cooking For Kings [both 59E59 Theater - Off Broadway as part of the 2006 Brits Off Broadway Festival], Mammals [National Tour - Consultant Producer], We Could Be Heroes [Bridewell Theatre - Associate Producer], Richard Cameron’s The Glee Club [National Tour - Associate Producer], Marcus Markou’s acclaimed and famed Age-Sex-Location [Riverside Studios - Co-Producer] and Daniel Abineri’s Money to Burn [Associate Producer].
Paul has worked on numerous projects including The A-Z of Mrs P with Isy Suttie and Frances Ruffelle (Southwark Playhouse), Joe & I starring Peter Bowles (King’s Head, Islington), The Bush Theatre’s The Glee Club (Duchess Theatre 2002) and Mammals by Amelia Bullmore (National Tour Spring 2006), Puppetry of the Penis (National Tour and West End), Elvis, Lennon & JFK (tour Spring 2005), Hampstead Heath Ice Rink, Manchester United Ice Rink at Old Trafford, The Night of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall (May 2005), The Bush Theatre’s Damages by Steve Thompson and M.A.D. by David Eldridge, Peter Klein and Porgy Group Inc’s Porgy & Bess (national tours), the national tour of David Hare’s The Blue Room (Spring 2003 – starring Tracy Shaw and Jason Connery), Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt (starring Gary Wilmot, Clive Francis and Jeffrey Holland), AWP’s Copacabana (Summer 2003) starring Gemma Craven, Vanessa Ford The Hobbit (2 West End seasons and regular national tours), Qdos Entertainment’s Boogie Nights (national tours), A Busy Day (Lyric Theatre, London), Mindgame (Vaudeville Theatre), Hard Times The Musical (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), the launch of the Agatha Christie Theatre Festival 2001 (Palace Theatre, Westcliff), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Edinburgh Festivals, London Bridge Tunnels and The Albany, Deptford), The City Club (Edinburgh 2004), The Donkey Show (Hanover Grand), Oxford Stage Company’s Comedians, Steven Berkoff’s Messiah – Scenes of a Crucifixion (Riverside Studios), Zip-a-dee doo dah! (renamed Zipp!) devised and starring Gyles Brandreth, ex nihilo theatre‘s A Thought In Three Parts at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) and Derevo’s La Divini Commedia at the Riverside Studios.
As Director of Marketing for Bill Kenwright (1996-2000) Paul worked on over 250 productions and a number of films. Theatre included Elvis The Concert (a ‘virtual Elvis’ national arena tour), A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Jessica Lange), The Peter Hall Company Season at the Piccadilly Theatre (1998/99), A Doll’s House (Belasco Theatre, Broadway – 4 Tony Awards), An Ideal Husband (London, national tours and Broadway) and Blood Brothers (London, nationals tour and Toronto). Paul oversaw the launch marketing and PR of British Rom-Com Don’t Go Breaking My Heart starring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove, Charles Dance, Tom Conti, Jane Leeves, and Linda Bellingham amongst many other well known British actors – the film was the highest grossing film of its opening weekend, which classically fell on a Valentine weekend. Prior to this period with Bill Kenwright, Paul co-ordinated a number of marketing campaigns including the launch of Cliff Richard’s Heathcliff, David Mamet’s The Cryptogram and The Last Yankee, Nadja Hick’s Out of the Blue and Evan Steadman’s Maxwell The Musical (which never opened following an injunction by the Lord Chamberlain due to the then forthcoming Maxwell brothers’ trial!).
Paul has procured, developed and delivered financing for renewable energy opportunities, the environmental and social impact sectors and entertainment/media opportunities. Paul is currently handling the advertising for national tours of Brendan Cole, Moscow City Ballet and St Petersburg Classic Ballet. Paul is also working on a number of projects in the environmental and social impact sectors, entertainment sector and is developing film, TV and media projects through the new entity The Production Place. Most recently, Paul managed the strategy and release of the film Property of The State which screened at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2016. The feature was released in RoI and NI on 27 October 2017 and is now available on iTunes, Virgin Media, and Sky amongst others.
Paul is a Trustee of Social Farms & Gardens (formerly The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens which merged with Care Farming UK on 1 April 2018); Chair of the William Hobbayne Community Gardens Association in West London; Chair of the Billets Hart Allotments Association in West London; and a supporter through shares of Seed Co-operative, the UK's community owned seed company.
Previously Paul’s primary field of involvement had been assisting individuals establish and expand businesses, holding roles as Managing Director and Board Director within these businesses.. He continues to act as a Consultant/Advisor through his own consultancy which he formed in May 2000. Initially Paul consulted within the theatre and entertainment industry until expanding the client base to include personal press management and the business development, management, production and representation of start-ups, events and consumer products.
Paul remains significantly involved in a number of businesses including EnyGen which is engaged in delivering sustainable social and environmental impact within the commercial sector. Paul is also co-founder with Warren Heal of RentMyItems.com – the household items rental site, and Director of Shaisden Renovations Limited which owns and manages a small property portfolio in Aldershot. Additionally, Paul is Associate Producer of the play To Begin With… by Jeffrey Hatcher and starring Gerald Dickens,.which is scheduled to tour the UK in 2018 having premiered in Minneapolis in 2015.
From 1996 through 2000 Paul was Director of Marketing for theatre and film producer Bill Kenwright Limited which is one of the UK’s leading film, theatre and entertainment production companies. Following leaving Bill Kenwright Limited, Paul continued to work in theatre and entertainment with an extensive client and production list of touring, West End, Fringe and international productions – more details of Paul’s theatre work can be found below.
THEATRE
Production credits include Cloud Ten Productions’ The Fall & Rise of Lenny Smallman, and readings of Skeletons and A Good Place For Fishing, all written by Richard Lumsden. Other theatre producing credits for Paul include Beau Brummell and Cooking For Kings [both 59E59 Theater - Off Broadway as part of the 2006 Brits Off Broadway Festival], Mammals [National Tour - Consultant Producer], We Could Be Heroes [Bridewell Theatre - Associate Producer], Richard Cameron’s The Glee Club [National Tour - Associate Producer], Marcus Markou’s acclaimed and famed Age-Sex-Location [Riverside Studios - Co-Producer] and Daniel Abineri’s Money to Burn [Associate Producer].
Paul has worked on numerous projects including The A-Z of Mrs P with Isy Suttie and Frances Ruffelle (Southwark Playhouse), Joe & I starring Peter Bowles (King’s Head, Islington), The Bush Theatre’s The Glee Club (Duchess Theatre 2002) and Mammals by Amelia Bullmore (National Tour Spring 2006), Puppetry of the Penis (National Tour and West End), Elvis, Lennon & JFK (tour Spring 2005), Hampstead Heath Ice Rink, Manchester United Ice Rink at Old Trafford, The Night of 1000 Voices at the Royal Albert Hall (May 2005), The Bush Theatre’s Damages by Steve Thompson and M.A.D. by David Eldridge, Peter Klein and Porgy Group Inc’s Porgy & Bess (national tours), the national tour of David Hare’s The Blue Room (Spring 2003 – starring Tracy Shaw and Jason Connery), Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt (starring Gary Wilmot, Clive Francis and Jeffrey Holland), AWP’s Copacabana (Summer 2003) starring Gemma Craven, Vanessa Ford The Hobbit (2 West End seasons and regular national tours), Qdos Entertainment’s Boogie Nights (national tours), A Busy Day (Lyric Theatre, London), Mindgame (Vaudeville Theatre), Hard Times The Musical (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), the launch of the Agatha Christie Theatre Festival 2001 (Palace Theatre, Westcliff), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Edinburgh Festivals, London Bridge Tunnels and The Albany, Deptford), The City Club (Edinburgh 2004), The Donkey Show (Hanover Grand), Oxford Stage Company’s Comedians, Steven Berkoff’s Messiah – Scenes of a Crucifixion (Riverside Studios), Zip-a-dee doo dah! (renamed Zipp!) devised and starring Gyles Brandreth, ex nihilo theatre‘s A Thought In Three Parts at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre) and Derevo’s La Divini Commedia at the Riverside Studios.
As Director of Marketing for Bill Kenwright (1996-2000) Paul worked on over 250 productions and a number of films. Theatre included Elvis The Concert (a ‘virtual Elvis’ national arena tour), A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Jessica Lange), The Peter Hall Company Season at the Piccadilly Theatre (1998/99), A Doll’s House (Belasco Theatre, Broadway – 4 Tony Awards), An Ideal Husband (London, national tours and Broadway) and Blood Brothers (London, nationals tour and Toronto). Paul oversaw the launch marketing and PR of British Rom-Com Don’t Go Breaking My Heart starring Anthony Edwards, Jenny Seagrove, Charles Dance, Tom Conti, Jane Leeves, and Linda Bellingham amongst many other well known British actors – the film was the highest grossing film of its opening weekend, which classically fell on a Valentine weekend. Prior to this period with Bill Kenwright, Paul co-ordinated a number of marketing campaigns including the launch of Cliff Richard’s Heathcliff, David Mamet’s The Cryptogram and The Last Yankee, Nadja Hick’s Out of the Blue and Evan Steadman’s Maxwell The Musical (which never opened following an injunction by the Lord Chamberlain due to the then forthcoming Maxwell brothers’ trial!).
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