conceived & written by Paul Outlaw
a new experimental play with music
PAUL OUTLAW
“...a compelling,
dominating presence...”
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles-based experimental theater artist and vocalist whose award-winning solo projects have been presented across the United States and in Europe. His work’s recurring themes are race, sexual identity, violence and American history.
Outlaw was the recipient of one of the 2012 COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowships, which honor ten mid-career artists “who dedicate themselves to an ongoing body of excellent work, represent a relevant progression through their pieces or series, exemplify a generation of core ideas in their field, garner respect from their peers, and serve as role models for other artists.”
Trained as an actor at the Phillips Exeter Academy and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Outlaw has portrayed an eclectic
spectrum of roles that includes James Baldwin, Jeffrey Dahmer, Nat Turner, Sigmund Freud, Jesse Owens, William Randolph Hearst, Donald Cinque Mtume” DeFreeze, Hades Lord of the Underworld, Tom Sawyer, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the Scarecrow of Oz, Shakespeare’s Mercutio and Beckett’s Vladimir. He played the title role in Pepe Danquart's Schwarzfahrer, winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1994.
Paul Outlaw is the author and performer of Here Be Dragons (1995), Berserker (2003), What Did I Do to Be So Black and... (2011) and The Late, Late Show (2013). He received a 2008 Durfee Foundation Artists’ Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant for Berserker, which was named Best Male Dramatic Solo at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and a 2011 ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation for What Did I Do to Be So Black and...