Festival Staff

Festival Staff

Tim Paul is an actor, writer and teacher, currently on the faculty of the Second City Hollywood Training Center. In Chicago, he was an understudy for the Second City resident stages, as well as a Resident Director and performer at the Annoyance Theatre. Select credits includeMy So-Called Afterlife, Becker, Escape From Ground Zero, Fisting: A Period Piece and Mick Napier's Invisible World, which was named 'Best Sketch of 2014' by Chicago Magazine. Formerly on the faculty at both the Annoyance (Chicago) and Second City (Chicago), he has been a guest instructor at the Annoyance (NYC), Dublin Improv (Dublin, Ireland), The Nursery (London, UK), The New Movement (Austin), Recul (Bucharest, Romania) and Improv Asylum (Boston). In 2015, he spent most of the year performing with Second City from Barcelona to Bermuda aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines, before relocating to California. Tim now lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Kitty Dukakis.