PAUL

Paul Zimet is the Artistic Director of Talking Band. Plays he has written and directed for the company include: Shimmer and Herringbone (with Ellen Maddow), The City of No Illusions, The Room Sings, The Golden Toad (with Ellen Maddow) Marcellus Shale, New Islands Archipelago, Imminence, Belize, The Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Party Time, Black Milk Quartet and New Cities. Plays he has directed include Ellen Maddow’s Lemon Girls or Art for The Artless, Burnished by Grief, Delicious Rivers and Painted Snake in a Painted Chair; and Taylor Mac’s The Walk Across America for Mother Earth and The Lily’s Revenge (Part I). These productions have been performed in NYC at La MaMa, HERE, Mabou Mines,The Ohio Theater, The Flea, DTW, PS 122, and in theaters and festivals throughout the US, Europe, and South America. As an actor, recent performance include Existentialism, created and directed by Anne Bogart (at La MaMa) and The Following Evening, written by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone (at PAC-NY). OBIE award for direction, and three OBIE awards with the Open Theater and Winter Project directed by Joseph Chaikin. The Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater; Playwrights’ Center National McKnight Fellowship; playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Playwright alumnus of New Dramatists; Associate Professor Emeritus in Theatre, Smith College.