Paul Greenwood
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Paul was born in Stockton-on-Tees and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has played many leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company including: Feste in Twelfth Night; Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors; Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Mowbray in Richard II; Kent in King Lear; Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz with Imelda Staunton; Goodlack in The Fair Maid of the West with Sean Bean; Polixenes in The Winter's Tale with Jeremy Irons; and Alonzo in Sam Mendes' production of The Tempest. 
Paul's work in London includes West End runs as Jerry in the RSC's Once in a Lifetime opposite Zoë Wanamaker and Theo in Piaf opposite Jane Lapotaire (Piccadilly Theatre). For the RSC at the Barbican Theatre, credits include: Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; Tassell in The Happiest Days of Your Life; Lelio in The Venetian Twins; Tom in The Time of Your Life; and Egeon in The Comedy of Errors. Other London appearances include: Maples in John Osborne's production of Inadmissible Evidence (Royal Court); Arthur in Arthur's World (Bush Theatre); and Webster in The Beautiful People (Finborough).
Paul starred as Grandpa Potts in a year-long national tour of the West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. For Manchester's Royal Exchange, he appeared as Cleante in Tartuffe and Geoffrey in Six Degrees of Separation. Other regional theatre productions include: Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (UK Tour); Captain Terri Dennis in Privates on Parade (Birmingham Rep);  Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Ludlow Festival); Hastings in Richard III (Nottingham Playhouse); the title role in Peer Gynt (Cheltenham Everyman); Dorn in The Seagull (Compass Theatre, UK Tour); Maurice in Peter Skellern's two-hander musical You Can Always Hand Them Back (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); and, for Stoke's New Vic Theatre,  Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Lord Loam in The Admirable Crichton, and Sir Lucius O'Trigger in The Rivals. International work includes: Buckingham in Gregory Doran's production of Henry VIII (New York and Washington DC); Caliban in The Tempest (Actor Company, US Tour); Theseus in The Fairy Queen (Aix-en-Provence Festival); and The Shakespeare Revue (Bucharest, Cairo, US Tours, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival).
Film work includes: Mike Leigh's Peterloo (Film 4 / Amazon Prime); Alan Bennett's A Day Out directed by Stephen Frears (BBC Films); and the Hammer Horror Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter. On television Paul played the title role in the comedy series Rosie, for which he wrote and sang the title song. Other TV appearances include: Superintendent Yelland in Spender opposite Jimmy Nail; The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole; Our Friends in the North; Casualty; Holby City; Lewis; Heartbeat; Coronation Street; The Bill; Pie in the Sky; Father Brown; Midsomer Murders; Crossroads; Z Cars; and Doctors. 
As a writer, Paul’s plays include Dancing in the Dark which was performed at Stratford’s Other Place as part of the 2000 RSC Fringe Festival. It also had a run at the Off-West End Gate Theatre in London. His one-act play Head and Heart was highly commended in the 2020 King Lear Prize. Paul’s new thriller Playing Dead is in development with a view to a commercial production in 2024.
CURRENT
Don't Walk by in Silence
Peterloo
Wives & Daughters
Playing Dead
Father Brown
Lewis
Midsommer Murders
Our Friends in the North
The Animals' Caravan


WEST END
Once in a Lifetime
Piaf
They Shoot Horses

Fair Maid of the West
Inadmissible Evidence

LONDON FRINGE
The Beautiful People
Arthur's World


ORCHESTRAL
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London Sinfonia
The Fairy Queen
RSC
Twelfth Night
The Comedy of Errors
The Wizard of Oz
Every Man in his Humour
Happiest Days of Your Life
Henry VIII
The Venetian Twins
A Christmas Carol
The Tempest
Midsummer Night's Dream
Fair Maid of the West
The Time of Your Life
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mother Courage
Love's Labour's Lost
Murder in the Cathedral
Henry VIII
Richard II
The Comedy of Errors
Once in a Lifetime
Piaf
They Shoot Horses

Fair Maid of the West
​Midsummer Night's Dream

MANCHESTER
​ROYAL EXCHANGE

Six Degrees of Separation
Tartuffe

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​INTERNATIONAL
Henry VIII
The Tempest
The Shakespeare Revue
The Fairy Queen



UK REPERTORY
A Christmas Carol
The Admirable Crichton
Proof
The Rivals
Always Hand Them Back
Timothy Cratchit
Bomber's Moon
Twelfth Night
Cymbeline
Our Father
He's Much to Blame
The Last Days of Empire
Beast on the Moon
Hamlet
Richard III
Privates on Parade
Noises Off
The Price 
Peer Gynt


UK TOURING
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Seagull
Guys and Dolls
Goose Pimples
The Good Doctor
Pig in a Poke
TELEVISION
Our Friends in the North
Lewis
Midsommer Murders
Father Brown
Spender
Holby City

Casualty
Doctors
The Bill
Coronation Street

Rosie
PC Penrose
Witless
Adrian Mole
Pie in the Sky
Heartbeat
A Day Out
It's Lulu
Cilla's World of Comedy
No Trams to Lime Street
The Devil's Crown
Z Cars
The First Lady
Crossroads
Captain Zep

​FILM
Peterloo
Don't Walk by in Silence

The Lovers
Captain Kronos
BBC RADIO
Wives & Daughters
John Dodd
Man in the Paper Mask
Sleeping Dog
The Archers
Archers Extra

AUDIO
Wives & Daughters
The Animals' Caravan


WRITING
Dancing in the Dark
Playing Dead
​Head & Heart

​​ENTERTAINMENTS
Shakespeare Revue
A Marvellous Party
On the Grapevine
Façade
The Cocktail Hour

Come Rain, Come Shine
An Actor's Life for Me
Crackers & Spice
Love etc
Cook's Tour of the Raj
Vicarage Allsorts
Transports of Delight
Pyramus & Thisbe






SHOWREEL
Showreel

CONTACT
Paul's email

WEBSITE DESIGN
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