Paul Meade
Paul Meade is Artistic Director of Guna Nua Theatre, and is a writer, director, and actor from Limerick. Paul trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, and later received an M.A. in modern drama from U.C.D. For Guna Nua Paul has co-directed the award-winning Scenes from a Water Cooler as well as Trousers and Taste by David Parnell, and the Irish premiere of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard. He has also directed The Shawl and Positive Dead People for Bewleys' Cafe Theatre, Translations for Hands Turn Theatre, Medea for Threshold and Death and the Maiden for Mirage. His work as a writer included Trousers, Thesis, Scenes from a Water Cooler and Skin Deep which won him the Stewart Parker Trust Award. He has also translated the plays Stop the Tempo, All These Guys and Our Father Who Art in the Supermarket. Most recently he wrote Mushroom for Storytellers Theatre Company. Paul is currently under commission from Guna Nua and the Irish Council for Bioethics.
