Paula Plum
Paula Plum (Director) is a founding member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project. She was Artistic Director of WGBH’s A Christmas Celtic Sojournpartnering with the late great Brian O’Donovan for seventeen years, touring Concerts throughout New England during the Christmas holiday season. She also served as Artistic Director of Gloucester Stage from 2021 to 2023. Directing credits include POTUS (SpeakEasy Stage) Macbeth and School for Scandal, (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Steel Magnolias (Stoneham Theatre), Jake’s Women (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Baltimore Waltz and Twelfth Night (Lyric Stage), I’m Not Rappaport, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz (Gloucester Stage), The Lady and the Clarinet (New Ehrlich Theatre), Lone Star, Laundry & Bourbon (Back Alley Theatre), Tell Me On A Sunday (Stuart St. Theatre) Romeo and Juliet (Happy Medium Theatre) and The Understudy, and Love Loss and What I Wore (HUB Theater). As the 2009 recipient of the Fox Actor Fellowship awarded to five actors nationwide, Paula conducted a workshop at her host theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, entitled Handling the Hot Moments, exploring the ways actors negotiate intimacy on stage. Her article of the same title was published in the October 2011 issue of American Theatre Magazine. While she is best known to Boston audiences as an actress, Paula is also a playwright, teacher and acting coach. Her most recent play, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, explores the passions and peccadilloes of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. With Actors’ Shakespeare Project, she has played Phedre, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Beatrice, Mistress Overdone, the Nurse and the Countess in All’s Well that Ends Well. Paula is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, five IRNE awards, four Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Actress, and was honored with the 2003 Distinguished Alumna of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She is married to actor Richard Snee. Coaching @paulaplum.com.