Paul Hunter

Paul Hunter

Director

Paul Hunter is co-founder and Artistic Director of Told by an Idiot. Paul has worked on all Told by an Idiot shows to date in a variety of roles including director/writer/performer.

Directing credits include: Charlie and Stan, Get Happy, I Am Thomas, And The Horse You Rode In On, The Ghost Train, Too Clever By Half, You Can’t Take It With You, The Dark Philosophers, The Comedy of Errors, A Little Fantasy, I’m A Fool To Want You, and Shoot Me In The Heart (All Told by an Idiot in collaboration with a variety of venues including the RSC, National Theatre Wales, National Theatre Scotland, the Barbican, the London International Mime Festival, Soho Theatre and the Royal Exchange Manchester).

Other directing credits includes: The Mouse and His Child (RSC); Señora Carrar’s Rifles (Young Vic); Can’t Pay Won’t Pay (Salisbury Playhouse); Every Last Trick (Spymonkey/Royal and Derngate).

As Associate Director at Bolton Octagon: The Venetian Twins, Cleo Camping Emanuelle and Dick, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

International directing credits include: The Firework Makers Daughter (Svenska Theatre Finland); One Set To Love (National Theatre Hungary); Ordago (Punto Fjinco- Bilbao).