About the playwright/actor:
Phil Paradis is best known for FOOTPRINTS OF THE POLAR BEAR & OTHER ECO-CENTRIC PLAYS (about climate change/environmental degradation), SOLDIER'S CHRISTMAS, a play with song about the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914, and his one-man shows RALPH WALDO EMERSON: THE SAGE OF CONCORD; and EVENING WITH STEPHEN CRANE which brings to life onstage the author of The Red Badge of Courage.
Twenty-seven of his plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Cincinnati, Louisville, Spokane, Fort Thomas, Newport, KY and Newport, RI. His awards include a Kentucky New Play Series Award, a Cincinnati Directors Competition Grand Prize for FOOTPRINTS OF THE POLAR BEAR, and an Audience Choice Award at 24 EXPERIMENT, Point Loma Actors Theater, San Diego.
Phil is a Resident Playwright at American Theatre of Actors, Manhattan Repertory Theatre and member of the Dramatists Guild. He has served as an editor and editorial consultant and on the faculties of Northern Kentucky University, Iowa State University, Western Carolina University, and Oklahoma State University. He directs Actors & Playwrights Collaborative. For more, see www.philparadis.com.
