Paul is a freelance director who makes his home in Ashland, Oregon. He is a founding Producing Director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota, and of the Oregon Cabaret Theatre. Directing credits include productions at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Denver Center Theatre Company; Alley Theatre; Clarence Brown Theatre Company; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Pioneer Theatre Company; Syracuse Stage; Geva Theatre Center; Connecticut Repertory Theatre; Kansas City Repertory Theatre; the Folger Shakespeare Theatre; the Fulton Theatre; the Alabama, California, Idaho, Oregon, Orlando and Utah Shakespeare Festivals; PCPA Theaterfest (of which he was Conservatory Director/Associate Artistic Director); and at leading theatre training programs across the country, including The Guthrie Theatre/University of Minnesota, The Old Globe/University of San Diego, the University of Delaware/Professional Theatre Training Program, the University of Oklahoma/Helmerich School of Drama, Utah State University/Caine College of the Arts, Southern Oregon University and Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts. He is delighted to be making his directing debut at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park with the zany and virtuosic Murder for Two, to experience Cincinnati up close and personal, and to work with his long-time friend and colleague, Artistic Director Blake Robison. Visit paulbarnesdirector.com.