Paul Hufker has been an AEA actor, playwright and director in the NYC area for over 15 years. He is a proud graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA playwriting program, under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.

 

Paul has worked with many NYC theatre companies including: The Bechdel Group, 12 Peers Theatre Company

(a remarkablepodcast recording of Modern Houses available here Link: https://pod.co/modernmyths-

podcast/episode-24-modern-houses-in-the-lush-green-savannah-that-liesin-

the-shadow-of-the-volcano) , The Tank Theatre Company, Variations Theatre

Company, AND Theatre Company, the 29th St Playwrights’ Collective (Member) and

many others, as well as other companies around the US.

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In 2019, Paul's play Birthday in the Bronx was produced in NYC and closed JUST before COVID hit. Phew.

 

Paul has worked with fashion designer and political activist Carla Fernandez,

writing her London fashion show/protest piece, which debuted in London in 2018.

Also in 2018, Paul worked with world-renowned visual artist Pedro Reyes, writing

his Noam Chomsky-Inspired puppet play Manufacturing Mischief, which premiered

in NYC and internationally, and was directed by Meghan Finn. In the fall of 2017,

Paul wrote the script for Pedro Reyes’ massive art installation in Brooklyn entitled

Doomocracy, also directed by Meghan Finn.

 

He is a 2018 Eugene O’Neill Prize Semi-Finalist, a 2016 Great Plains Theatre

Conference invited playwright, a 2015 and 2016 Himan Brown Award winner

(through Brooklyn College), a 2016 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist, a 2016

American Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Playwriting Award finalist, a

2015 Jerome Fellowship finalist, a 2014 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, and a

2011 O’Neill Conference semi-finalist. His writing collaborations have been produced in NYC,

throughout the US, and in Toronto, Canada, as well as at MIT, the Museo Jumex in

Mexico City and the Serpentine Gallery in London. He is currently a full-time

Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University, in their Writing Program, and a proud graduate of

Webster University where he received his BFA in theatrical performance.

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