Paul grew up in Albuquerque, and began acting at age 7 in plays and then at age 8 in the film John Baker's Last Race, playing Mike, the sad little boy in the wheelchair. Later child acting credits also include playing Butch Cassidy's son in Butch and Sundance The Early Days and Otis Fagin, the clumsy demolitions expert in Independance.

He did all kinds of theatre (Writing, Producing and Directing, although the degree is in Acting) at the University of New Mexico, then moved on to New York, Seattle and now Los Angeles.

He was a founding Fool and had two of his full-length plays Catching Hell and The Swine Show produced on the Fools mainstage. He was a co-producer of CRIME SCENE during its first year and a half, as well as writing and directing the storylines "City of Angles", "Crocodile Gandhi Solver of Crimes" and "Cat City".

After hearing of overnight theatre projects in other cities, he proposed the Fools do it as well in their own way and coined the name Fast-N-Loose, but will never claim ownership of any kind.

He has produced several large-scale projects for the company, including the 2000 LA Weekly Theatre Awards (Sacred Fools was the host theatre), Dubya 2000, The Mechanical Rabbit and Frankenstein in Love.