Paul Stebbings

Christopher Paul Stebbings MBE is an actor and the artistic director of TNT music theatre and The American Drama Group Europe.^[1][2]

Background

Stebbings was born in Nottingham and studied drama at Bristol University.^[3] He trained in the Grotowski method with Triple Action Theatre in Britain and Poland. Stebbings founded TNT music theatre in 1980 and received regular Arts Council funding for work in the UK. He 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 Teatro Dioniso Costa Rica.

His productions have toured in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.^[4] Festival appearances include the award-winning Wizard of Jazz at the Munich Biennale, the Off-Broadway Festival in New York, and award-winning performances at the Edinburgh Festival of The murder of Sherlock Holmes, in which he played the title role.

Stebbings lives in Munich with his wife, Angelika, a television executive.

Honours

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to promoting British theatre and furthering British cultural interests in Asia.^[5]

Productions

• Macbeth^[6]
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Brave New World
• Moon Palace
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Hamlet
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Gulliver's Travels: A Satirical Science-Fiction Adventure^[7]
• Harlequin (later retitled Glasnost Harlequin)^[8]
• The Charlie Chaplin Putsch^[9]

References

1. "Interview: Paul Stebbings of TNT Theatre". Time Out Beijing. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
2. Reljic, Teodore. "From the cabinet to the nursery". Malta Today. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
3. Short biography of Stebbings British Council, official website. Retrieved December 24, 2010
4. "Shakespeare’s most Powerful Tragedy Lands in Beijing". ChinaCulture.org. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
5. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60534. p. 26. 15 June 2013.
6. "Macbeth comes to town". Tel Aviv Fever. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
7. Real, Hermann J. (2005). The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 281. ISBN 9780826468475. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
8. Rudlin, John (1994). Commedia Dell'Arte: An Actor's Handbook. Routledge. pp. 220, 223, 224, 225. ISBN 978-0415047708. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
9. Plays and Players, Issues 472-477. Hansom Books. 1993. p. 73. Retrieved 23 August 2014.