Paul Garnault is a Welsh actor, director and educationalist. He is currently a Director at the Ruskin Mill Trust UK. He is a Director of Tir Ceridwen Land Trust (2019). He has also spent over 20 years in Further Education management and as a lecturer in Performing Arts and Media Production. He is Artistic Director for Wales Actors’ Company. He is also a Director for Trigonos, North Wales.(June 2019).
Training
edit- Trained at Powys-Brecon: Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu.
- Trained at London: East 15 Acting School.
- Trained at University of Wales. Post Graduate Certificate of Education (level 6)
Directorial Accomplishments
editWales Actors' Company
edit- 1998 Twelfth Night
- 1999 Hamlet
- 2000 Henry V
- 2001 Romeo and Juliet
- 2001 Macbeth
- 2002 Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2002 The Rover Aphra Behn
- 2003 Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- 2003 The Tempest
- 2004 Much Ado About Nothing
- 2015/19 Pope Head, Secret Life of Frances Bacon
Career
edit- He has worked as an actor, director and lecturer in Performing Arts in many parts of the UK and Europe.
Acting
edit- International Theatre Institute
- Royal Shakespeare Company
- Made In Wales Theatre
- Wales Actors' Company
- Sherman Theatre Company Cardiff
- Stadte Theater Erlangen Germany
BBC Television Credits
edit- Private Life of a Masterpiece
- EastEnders
- Oustside The Rules
Professional
edit- 2023: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl and Ty'r Eithin. Ruskin Mill Trust
- 2019-23: Director of Development Wales and Performing Arts. Ruskin Mill Trust
- 2016-18: Principal Ruskin Mill College, Stroud.
- 2015-18: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl, Wales
- 2010: Head of the Academy for Performing Arts, Birmingham Metropolitan.
Also worked at University of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil College (9 years) Coleg Gwent, Gloucestershire College, Kidderminster College.
- A founder of the Wales Actors' Company and Artistic Director for twenty years[1] (The Company works in the Theatre Workshop style of Joan Littlewood and has been called "without doubt one of the most successful professional theatre companies in Wales".)[2]
- 2006/7 Arts Council Of Wales, South Wales Committee.