Paul Andrew Perez
Paul is a writer, director, actor, teacher and theatre administrator. He is currently the Executive Director of The Main Street Arts Children’s Theatre in Bedford Hills, NY and the Director of Theatre for The Rippowam-Cisqua School in Bedford, NY. His writing credits include the March 2003 Off Broadway production of Heat Lightning at the Kirk Theatre. His piece MOD was selected for the ASCAP workshop under the direction of Stephen Schwartz. In 2007 MOD was produced at The 59East 59 Street Theatre in New York City and in the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He recently wrote a radio play Transmitter Man which was released in 2007 and was commissioned by the Buddies program to write 2 new bilingual musicals on the immigration experience. His other play Sleepwalker is currently in development. His has also written countless adaptations of children’s stories including Puss ‘N GoGo Boots and a new version of The Emperors New Clothes.
Paul is also the Executive Director of The Infinity Repertory Theatre Company and has had the pleasure of directing Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights, Metamorphoses, as well as Godspell, An Evening of David Ives, Romeo and Juliet, Reckless and a tour production of George Griggs’s A Midsummer Nights Dream. Other directing credits include the Off-Broadway productions of Dream City Twosome and Bea’s Nest, the workshop production of You Kali starring Blair Brown, 2 Galas for The Northern Westchester Center For The Arts including hosts Richard Gere, Vanessa Williams, Kevin Spacey and Gregory Hines.
Paul is a member of S.S.D.C., A.F.T.R.A., A.E.A., S.A.G., A.A.T.E., Dramatist’s Guild as well as having served on an Advisory Board for The St. Thomas Aquinas College Theatre Program. He founded the acclaimed Main Street Arts and served as its Artistic Director for nine years and developed over 100 plays. He also worked for The Northern Westchester Center for The Arts as The Director of Theatre for six years and developed and built The Colleen Dewhurst Theatre.
