A graduate the University of British Columbia's MFA Creative Writing program and Queen’s University’s Specialized Studies in Stage and Screen, Paul is a writer, director, performer, producer, and sound designer.
In 2001, Paul founded Rabbit in a Hat Productions in Montreal with a mandate to produce new Canadian Independent Theatre. His work has since been produced throughout Canada and around the world.
He has received numerous awards for his productions including; The Tom Hendry Playwrights Guild of Canada Comedy Award (Siberian Summer); The Montreal English Critics Circle Revelation Award; Montreal English Theatre Awards Outstanding Direction (Oroonoko); New York Frigid Festival and Atlantic Fringe Festival Best Production (Paradise Lost); Montreal Fringe Festival Best Production (Miss Sugarpuss Must Die!); Atlantic Fringe Festival Best Drama (The Harvester); and Montreal Fringe Festival Le Prix Fred Barry Design (Blood Wild). Paul was also named one of Montreal’s top emerging artists by Nightlife Magazine.
Paul is a past participant of the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival, a past National Forum Representative of Quebec for the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and recently taught playwriting at Bishop's University in Quebec.
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World Premiere of
The Last Hanging at Redbridge
by
Paul Van Dyck
at Stratford's Here For Now Theatre
Directed by Peter Hinton-Davis
October 26 - November 10, 2027
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The year is 1838. In the village of Redbridge, Upper Canada, a duel is fought, a hangman is coming, and a woman seeks revenge.
Inspired by true events that took place in Brockville and Perth in the nineteenth century, The Last Hanging at Redbridge explores a precarious time in our nation’s history, where three unlikely characters become fatally connected through colonial land grabs, an ill-fated rebellion, and a giant wheel of cheese.
Siberian Summer
by
Paul Van Dyck
receives productions at
Theatre Night in Merrickville
in Merrickville, ON
and
Emerald Pig Theatrical Society
in Pitt Meadows
and
Maple Ridge, BC
