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Next show: Wait Until Dark at Greater Boston Stage Company
Image credit: Greater Boston Stage Company. Image description: A poster for “Wait Until Dark,” featuring a number of significant objects scattered across the image, including a telephone, a can of gasoline, & a safe, against a dark background. The words “Greater Boston Stage Co.” appears at center top.
Cinephiles, rejoice: Paul’s first show of 2026 is Wait Until Dark—the stage version of the classic 1967 mystery-thriller originally brought to the screen by Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.
Set in 1944 Greenwich Village, the story traps a blind woman in her own apartment with three men who think they have the advantage. They don’t.
In a departure from his more comedic roles, Paul plays Harry Roat: calm, calculating, and quietly sadistic, a villain who enjoys the game as much as the outcome.
Running March 6–22. Don’t wait until dark to get your tickets—grab them now.
A banner year: 2025 year-end recognition
2025 marked a banner year for Paul, with his work earning prominent year-end recognition across the Boston theater community.
Critic Chris Ehlers included Paul in The Theater Artists of 2025, a curated selection of ten creatives whose work helped define the year on Boston stages. In the piece, Ehlers highlights a quartet of performances that showcased Paul’s range, comic precision, and ability to elevate every production he appeared in—writing that “every appearance feels like a small event.”
Paul was also named one of Booked & Scene’s Curtain Call Crownings: Auto-Buy Actors for 2025, recognizing performers whose involvement alone makes a production worth seeing. He’s deeply grateful to the directors, designers, collaborators, and audiences who made the year what it was.
Just closed: A Sherlock Carol at Lyric Stage Boston
Image credit: Nile Scott. Image description: Paul as Sherlock Holmes investigates Scrooge’s murder by speaking with street peddler Old Joe (Mark Linehan).
The game was afoot from November 14-December 21, 2025, as Paul checked off a bucket list role playing Sherlock Holmes in A Sherlock Carol at Lyric Stage Boston.
This clever literary mashup finds Holmes adrift after the death of Moriarty and uninterested in ordinary cases—until Dr. Timothy Cratchit appears at his door, pleading for help solving the murder of his benefactor, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Paul relished the chance to explore new depths of this iconic character, and the Boston theater community seemed to agree: A Sherlock Carol was named a Critics’ Pick by the Boston Theater Critics Association and featured on WBZ.
Season 4 of “The Bostonians,” Plymouth Rock Insurance
Video description: Paul as the Patriots Militia Man watches a robot vacuum the Bostonians’ family room and laments the robots’ imminent rise.
If you’re a Boston sports fan of any kind, you’ve surely seen Paul as the Patriots Militia Man in “The Bostonians,” a series of sitcom-style commercials for Plymouth Rock Insurance.
Plymouth Rock is back with The Bostonians, season 4! You can now catch Paul in a batch of fun new spots filmed with Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster and Patriots mascot Pat Patriot.
You can still watch previous seasons anytime on YouTube.
New medium: Audiobook narration
Image description: The cover of Björg Björgenson and the Emergency Elf Alert. The background is an extreme close-up of an elf’s face. His eyes are obscured under a red winter hat, with his bulbous red nose peeking out and a flowing white beard below.
This year, Paul recorded his first audiobook: Björg Björgenson and the Emergency Elf Alert by Luke Maguire, available now on Audible.
It’s a funny, charming holiday romp in which a seemingly innocuous “Messaging Walnut” kicks off an official North-Pole-level situation: an elf on the run. The fugitive in question is the mysterious Björg Björgenson, whose antics send the Kitterling Elves into confusion, bureaucratic trouble, and plenty of comic chaos.
Paul narrates the audiobook and voices the entire cast of elves, turning the story into a full ensemble performance—solo. He expects to be back in the booth for the sequel in early 2026.