Paul Stebbings

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Paul Stebbings is artistic director of TNT music theatre and The American Drama Group Europe. He was born in Nottingham and studied drama at Bristol University, where he received first class honours. He trained in the Grotowski method with Triple Action Theatre in Britain and Poland. Paul founded TNT music theatre in 1980 and received regular Arts Council funding for work in the UK. Paul has also acted for Nottingham Playhouse and TNT and directed and written for South Yorkshire Theatre; Paragon Ensemble, Glasgow; Tams Theatre, Munich; the St. Petersburg State comedy Theatre, the Athens Concert Hall, Megaron; and the Russian Teatr Experimenta. His productions have toured to over twenty countries worldwide. Festival appearances include the award winning Wizard of Jazz at the Munich Biennale (critics prize), the Off Broadway Festival in New York and the Tokyo International Festival, and recent award winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival (The murder of Sherlock Holmes, in which he played the title role). His numerous productions for American Drama Group Europe and TNT include Macbeth, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Brave New World, Moon Palace (a dance drama version of Paul Auster's contemporary novel) and A Midsummer Night's Dream. One of Pauls main areas of interest is the integration of music and theatre which culminated in the production of Moby Dick.