Paul trained as a stage manager at Central School of Speech and Drama. Between 1984 and 2003, he was a member of the Sound Department of the Royal National Theatre where he designed the sound for over 120 productions, including: Anything Goes (NT & Drury Lane), His Dark Materials, Edmond, Henry V, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Coast of Utopia, My Fair Lady (NT and Drury Lane), The Oedipus Plays, Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, Candide, Oklahoma! (NT, Lyceum and Gershwin Theatre, New York), Oh, What a Lovely War!, A Little Night Music, Lady in the Dark, Guys and Dolls, Under Milk Wood, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, The Wind in the Willows, The Night of the Iguana, The Shaughraun. Other credits include: The King and I (London Palladium and UK tour), Endgame (Albery), Matthew Bourne’s The Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells, UK, US, Japan, Korea tours) and CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Mermaids (Dublin).

He co-designed Carousel (NT, West End and Tokyo) and Oliver! (Palladium). In 1999, he won Live! Magazine Sound Designer of the Year Award for his work on Oklahoma! and Oh, What A Lovely War! Paul’s most recent projects include a production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stuff Happens, The House of Bernarda Alba, Buried Child and Henry IV parts 1&2 all at the NT, The Witches (Birmingham Rep and West End), Acorn Antiques in the West End, and Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling. His current projects include As You Desire Me at the Playhouse, and the UK and US tour of My Fair Lady.

Paul is an associate to the NT Sound Department and Sound Consultant for Sir Peter Hall’s Rose of Kingston Theatre project.