Paul trained at Motley following a BA in English at Oxford.

Since training he has designed nearly 50 shows for venues including Arcola, The Young Vic, The Albany, The Watermill (Newbury), Hampstead, The Royal Exchange (Manchester) Glasgow Citizens’, The Bush, Shakespeare’s Globe, Soho, Theatre 503, Hackney Empire, Southwark Playhouse, Le Tea (New York), Here (New York), Pakistan National Council of Arts (Islamabad) and WUK (Vienna). Touring projects including shows for Apples and Snakes and Shams Theatre.

As a director-designer, with a particular interest in the role design can play at the heart of the theatre-making process, he led devising on A Place at The Table (Camden People’s Theatre), Selfish (Arches, Glasgow, and CPT), Out of Nothing (Junction, Cambridge) and Rang (NCA, Pakistan), and co-led projects in the UK and Siberia for Scale Project.

He has also taught at NCA, as well as various UK universities. He currently teaches Theatre Production and Theatre Studies for Goldsmith College's PACE (Professional and Community Education) department. He has worked extensively in youth arts, including five years with the Hertfordshire-based mixed ability arts group Youth CREATE.

He plays the violin, has in the past written and arranged music for theatre and is a member of the Black Smock Band.