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.
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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.
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Paul is a past participant of the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival and was a past National Forum Representative of Quebec for the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
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He presently teaches playwriting at Bishop's University in Quebec.
Recent News:
FRANKENSTEIN: A Living Comic Book
On tour
October 2025
Recommended for ages 7+
A Kidoons Inc. presentation in association with WYRD Productions and The 20K Collective
Adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley
By Craig Francis, Rick Miller and Paul Van Dyck
Directed by Craig Francis and Rick Miller
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This electrifying new stage production uses immersive comic book design and playful theatrical techniques to reanimate the sci-fi classic for a new generation! Rick Miller, Craig Francis and Paul Van Dyck have adapted the novel to confront modern issues of climate change, artificial intelligence, and our relationship to technology… monsters of our own making!
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The Last Hanging at Redbridge
receives Ontario Arts Council funding
and a staged reading at the inaugural
St. Lawrence Writers Festival
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.