Early Career
- Dudley Citizens’ Theatre: songs, performing and directing shows
- Banner Theatre : collaborative song and scriptwriting
- Intervention, Handsworth: poem exhibited in art exhibition
- Birmingham Opera Company: member of community cast
- Write Away, Birmingham Rep: selected participant in playwriting scheme
- Room 204 Writer Development Scheme, Writing West Midlands
Recent Highlights
- Buxton Fringe, solo show, 2022
- Borders and Crossings Conference, University of Canterbury, 2021
- Live and Local film with Meon Vale: Snapshot Stories, 2020
- Pilot Nights: Warwick Arts Centre, 2019, work – in – progress
- Borders and Crossings Conference, University of Leicester, 2019
- Ludlow Festival Fringe, 2019 solo show
- Truth and Truffles, 2017-8 Live and Local Tour: story cabaret with Cat Weatherill
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2011 onwards: double bill and solo shows
- Brighton Fringe, 2017 & 2019 solo show
- Guest Poet, 2009 to now: including Shrewsbury, Kidderminster and Ludlow
- Birmingham Literature Festival, 2015 to 2019: co-curating showcase events
- Other festival appearances include: Coventry Storytelling Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon Fringe, Birmingham Comedy Festival, Buxton Fringe and Wolverhampton Literature Festival
- Big Script: member of Birmingham-based writing group
Publications
- Poetry Collection Displacement Activity and Other Poems, 2014
Qualifications
- BA in Creative Writing, University of Birmingham
- MA in Creative Writing, University of Central England
I also write occasional reviews and you can read some of my coverage of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 , Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019
naomipaulperformer.com 