Paula Wood
Actor/Designer
E-mail: paula@shane-arts.com

Height: 5'4"
Voice: Alto
Weight:
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue

BIO

Paula graduated from ACU in 2004 with a BFA in Theatre and has been busy ever since. She moved to Dallas shortly after graduation to pursue acting and costume design where she became a Core Ensemble member and the resident costume designer for The Dallas Hub Theater. Her most recent designs include 'A Commedia Carol' ‘Speed-The-Plow’, ‘Art’, and ‘The Skriker’. In addition to performing with the Comedy Killers Interactive Mystery division, she has also had the opportunity to play many memorable characters in local productions, including Eva in ‘Absurd Person Singular,’ Ophelia in‘Hamlet,’ and Katherine in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ for which she won the Dooley Award for Best Actress. Paula is proud to be working with Shane-Arts and the Dallas Hub Theatre.

ACTING RESUME

STAGE

A Commedia Carol Isobella & Various
Commedia-Dallas Hub Theater/Dir. Christie Shane
Holiday Homicide Gay Apparel
Shane-Arts: Comedy Killers/Dir. Tim Shane
The Taming Of the Shrew Katherine
Runway Theatre
Hamlet Ophelia
Abilene Shakespeare Festival
Much Ado About Nothing Don John
The Stolen Shakespeare Guild
Absurd Person Singular Eva
Culp Theatre
Return of the Haunting Claire Voyant
Shane-Arts: Comedy Killers/Dir. Tim Shane
Celebrity Newly Deads Cindy Rellah
Shane-Arts: Comedy Killers/Dir. Tim Shane
Kill The Boss Debbie Dunitall
Shane-Arts: Comedy Killers/Dir. Tim Shane
Diagnosis Death Allison "Ally" Gen
Shane-Arts: Comedy Killers/Dir. Tim Shane
The Taming of the Shrew Bianca
Abilene Shakespeare Festival
Emperor's New Clothes Princess
ACU Children's Theatre Tour
A Shayna Maidel Mama
Fire Station Theatre
Treasure Island Squire Trelawney
Abilene Paramount Theatre
Oliver! Old Sally
Abilene Civic Center
Burn This Anna
Lab Production: Fire Station Theatre
Most Massive Woman Wins Celia
Lab Production: Fire Station Theatre
The Funeral Parlor Susan
Lab Production: Fire Station Theatre
That Midnight Rodeo Cindy
Lab Production: Fire Station Theatre
Beautiful Bodies Nina
Lab Production: Fire Station Theatre

EDUCATION and TRAINING

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Abilene Christian University

SPECIAL SKILLS

Fencing Improvisation Photography Costume Design
Drawing Sewing Double-Jointed Shoulders British Dialect (Standard & Cockney)
Canadian Dialect Make-Up Dance (Jazz, clogging, pom) French Dialect

* Core Ensemble Member, Shane-Arts (Dallas, TX)
updated 1/7/06

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