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Paula Ewin is a Founding Member, Board Associate and long time player in the
acting ensemble of 29th Street Rep, where she has created leading
roles in over 23 New York and world premiere productions. Playwright
Bill Nave has written numerous characters with her specifically
in mind, all directed by Vera Beren. Favorite roles include
the epic NECKTIE BREAKFAST, in which she portrayed a charming
Southern Belle menaced by her abusive KKK husband in Depression
era Kentucky, and the award winning VISITING OLIVER, in which
she transformed herself into a cancer ridden mother visiting
the brain damaged son she institutionalized as a child. (Need
a moment? Okay.)
(Ready? Here we go again.) A magically versatile actor, Paula's
other character sketches include Naomi, the coked up, alcoholic
lounge singer lost on the outskirts of Atlantic City in WITH
SPIRIT AND WITH FIRE, Harriet, a hotshot photojournalist in
BIBLE BURLESQUE opposite Edward Norton, multiple roles in Judith
Thompson's LION AND THE STREETS, Charles Bukowski's SOUTH OF
NO NORTH, the flamboyant British pornographic filmmaker, Miss
Fontaine, in Anthony Neilson's controversial play, THE CENSOR
and Nora, a brassy Irish mother in war-torn Belfast, in Rona
Munro's BOLD GIRLS.
Paula has appeared regularly Off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman,
Triangle and Actor and Director's theaters and in numerous regional
and stock theaters across the USA. She also has worked regularly
in television (As the World Turns, Guiding Light), news (as
a correspondent for both ABC and CBS News Training) and in on-camera
and live business theater. A graduate of the William Esper studio
in New York, she holds a B.A. in Theater from Rhode Island College.
She is the recipient of an OOBR award for her performance in
NIGHT OF NAVE, the ACTF Irene Ryan Award for Excellence in Acting,
and is listed in Who's Who in American Women and Theater World.
In her free time (hard to believe, huh?), Paula is producing
and co-directing a video documentary about the realist painter
Sylvia Sleigh, entitled Look Here! A Portrait of Sylvia Sleigh
and (and!) has recorded a jazz CD entitled Something's Gotta
Give.
The Hive - The Women of 29th St. Rep: A reinvention of the award-winning Off Broadway theater, originally established in 1988. The Hive invites and provides artists with an environment of networking and resources for boundary-breaking projects in all mediums. For info click here.
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