Dylan Paul is an actor, musician, and teaching artist, recently appearing on Broadway and the West End in the Tony award-winning best musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical (OBC). On Broadway, Dylan also appeared in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54 revival of Cabaret (OBC 2014). Prior to the Boston world premiere of Moulin Rouge, Dylan was a resident acting company member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival and American Shakespeare Center. Other credits include the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and Folger Theatre.
Principal roles include Romeo in Romeo & Juliet, Octavius Caesar in Antony & Cleopatra, Orlando in As You Like It, Jack Absolute in Sheridan’s The Rivals, Bertram in All’s Well that Ends Well, Orsino in Twelfth Night, and the titular role of Molière’s Don Juan. As a principal, Dylan has played the Duke of Monroth on Broadway. He has been a part of over 2,000 Broadway performances and while swinging the ensemble of the Original Broadway Cast of Moulin Rouge, he also performed the roles of Christian, The Duke, and Zidler. Additionally, He originated Musidorus in the world premiere of Head Over Heels, which uniquely fused iambic pentameter, rock, and musical theatre. Through teaching and building online actor resources, Dylan supports and advocates for theatre artists.
Fulbright & Traditional Mas Archive
Under the auspices of a Fulbright award, Dylan examined heightened text and carnival performance while living in Trinidad & Tobago. He is a founder of Traditional Mas Archive, a free resource that has been widely accessed and exhibited at the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad & Tobago.
As a steward of the Traditional Mas Archive, Dylan volunteers with an international team to preserve, document, and examine carnival masquerade practices. By providing free access to interviews, photos, and carnival character information, TMA has become a small, valued resource for carnival studies, as well as a platform for frequently marginalized voices.
Teaching & Consulting
In addition to performing, Dylan trains actors through masterclasses and faculty appointments. Dylan taught Graduate Speech at University of Houston, and served as Clinical Assistant Professor and Artist in Residence at the University of Idaho, where he designed and taught course work in acting, voice and speech, Shakespeare, musical theatre, movement, and professional preparation for MFA and BFA performers in training.
Dylan received the Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association Clyde Vinson Scholarship in 2012, closely coinciding with his redesign of the IDEA archive. In collaboration with Paul Meier and Cameron Meier, he was the principal architect of a multiyear effort to re-build and standardize the International Dialects of English Archive and still serves as a senior editor of IDEA, a major tool for the free study of accents and dialects.
Dylan’s other efforts to support artists include consulting or serving as a committee member for arts advocacy and service organizations such as New York City’s The Possibility Project, the National Association of Voice Actors, Voice Over Resource Guide and Actors’ Equity Association. He has an interest in the intersection of heightened text and technology in contemporary performance. His most recent online tool is ActorPage.com, which he hopes to launch in 2026.
This week I celebrate a year with @livcece and her final performance at @moulinrougebway - where she has so brilliantly performed as Heel One, a Swing, and Nini with a moment’s notice. She is smart, she is hard working, she is dignified. She is zany and surprising . She’s easy on the eyes. She has curiosity and integrity that professional artists tend to give up on. People look to her and I don’t blame them. She hypes me when I’ve given up on hype. She has changed my life for the better. I have so many predictions for this one. She heads out to originate Penny in @dirtydancingmusical next . I imagine she’ll be very good at that, too. Happy closing to you, love- you did it.
winter escape
A month or so on the road.
My fourth installment in the @moulinrougebway multiverse. Boston, OBC, West End, NA Tour. It’s been an honor. What a show 🙂
hope your new year is a good one
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Poor)
📷 @benjaminriveraphotography
There’s still glory in it. Every two years 🙂
17 pretty abstract photos from waterways in Amsterdam, London, Paris, NYC, and Kansas.
#sigma50mmart
Very bad break dancing in Paris
I see London // I see France