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Paul Garnault is a Welsh actor, Mythos Storyteller director and educationalist. He was Head Of Academy at Birmingham Metropolitan and was Principal Ruskin Mill College and Coleg Plas Dwbl.(2024). He has also spent over 35 years in Further Education management and as a lecturer in Performing Arts and Media Production. He is Artistic Director for Wales Actors’ Company. Currently undertaking a Masters Programme.
Training
- Trained at Powys-Brecon: Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu.
- Trained at London: East 15 Acting School.
- Trained at University of Wales. Post Graduate Certificate of Education (level 6)
Directorial Accomplishments
Wales Actors' Company
- 1998 Twelfth Night
- 1999 Hamlet
- 2000 Henry V
- 2001 Romeo and Juliet
- 2001 Macbeth
- 2002 Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2002 The Rover Aphra Behn
- 2003 Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- 2003 The Tempest
- 2004 Much Ado About Nothing
- 2015/19 Pope Head, Secret Life of Frances Bacon
- 2023/24 Chewdl Taliesin, The Taliesin legends, Peredur, Celtic Mythos Origins
Career
- He has worked as an actor, director and lecturer in Performing Arts in many parts of the UK and Europe.
Acting
- International Theatre Institute
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Made In Wales Theatre
- Wales Actors' Company
- Sherman Theatre Company Cardiff
- Stadte Theater Erlangen Germany
BBC Television Credits
- Private Life of a Masterpiece
- EastEnders
- Oustside The Rules
Professional
- 2023: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl and Ty'r Eithin. Ruskin Mill Trust
- 2019-23: Director of Development Wales and Performing Arts. Ruskin Mill Trust
- 2016-18: Principal Ruskin Mill College, Stroud.
- 2015-18: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl, Wales
- 2010: Head of the Academy for Performing Arts, Birmingham Metropolitan.
Also worked at University of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil College (9 years) Coleg Gwent, Gloucestershire College, Kidderminster College.
- A founder of the Wales Actors' Company and Artistic Director for twenty years (The Company works in the Theatre Workshop style of Joan Littlewood and has been called "without doubt one of the most successful professional theatre companies in Wales".)
- 2006/7 Arts Council Of Wales, South Wales Committee.
References
- "Theatre review: Much Ado About Nothing at the National Botanical Gardens, Tywi Valley".
- ""Wales Actors Company" :Commentary and extended critical writing on theatre dance and performance in Wales".