Paul Garnault

Last updated March 12, 2025

Paul Garnault is a Welsh actor, storyteller theatre director poet and educationalist. He was Head Of Academy at Birmingham Metropolitan and was Principal Ruskin Mill College and Coleg Plas Dwbl.(2025). He has also spent over 35 years in Further Education management and as a lecturer in Performing Arts and Media Production. He is Artistic Director for Wales Actors’ Company.

Training

Trained at Powys-Brecon: Ysgol Uwchradd Aberhonddu.
Trained at London: East 15 Acting School.
Trained at University of Wales. Post Graduate Certificate of Education (level 6)

Directorial Accomplishments

Wales Actors' Company

1998 Twelfth Night
1999 Hamlet
2000 Henry V
2001 Romeo and Juliet
2001 Macbeth
2002 Midsummer Night's Dream
2002 The Rover Aphra Behn
2003 Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
2003 The Tempest
2004 Much Ado About Nothing
2015/19 Pope Head, Secret Life of Frances Bacon
2023/24 Chewdl Taliesin, The Taliesin legends, Peredur, Celtic Mythos Origins

Career

He has worked as an actor, director and lecturer in Performing Arts in many parts of the UK and Europe.

Acting

International Theatre Institute
Royal Shakespeare Company
Made In Wales Theatre
Wales Actors' Company
Sherman Theatre Company Cardiff
Stadte Theater Erlangen Germany

BBC Television Credits

Private Life of a Masterpiece
EastEnders
Oustside The Rules

Professional

2023: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl and Ty'r Eithin. Ruskin Mill Trust
2019-23: Director of Development Wales and Performing Arts. Ruskin Mill Trust
2016-18: Principal Ruskin Mill College, Stroud.
2015-18: Principal Coleg Plas Dwbl, Wales
2010: Head of the Academy for Performing Arts, Birmingham Metropolitan.

Also worked at University of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil College (9 years) Coleg Gwent, Gloucestershire College, Kidderminster College.

A founder of the Wales Actors' Company and Artistic Director for twenty years^[1] (The Company works in the Theatre Workshop style of Joan Littlewood and has been called "without doubt one of the most successful professional theatre companies in Wales".)^[2]
2006/7 Arts Council Of Wales, South Wales Committee.

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[1] "Theatre review: Much Ado About Nothing at the National Botanical Gardens, Tywi Valley".

[2] ""Wales Actors Company" :Commentary and extended critical writing on theatre dance and performance in Wales".

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