Paula Plum
 Paula Plum is the recipient of three IRNE Awards,
the 1995 Eliot Norton Award for Best Actress, ( Lost in Yonkers)
the 2004 Eliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, and the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University.
She is an actress, director, writer and teacher and has enjoyed (so far) thirty years on virtually all of Boston's Stages.
She is a founding member of The Actors' Shakespeare project ( Richard III, Measure for Measure & All's Well That Ends Well) .
She has created seven one person shows for the Undadilla Theatre of Vermont, most notable Plum Pudding ( IRNE for Best Actress 1993).
With the Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. she played Portia in Julius Caesar and Trinculo in The Tempest. With the Actors' Shakespeare Project,
The Countess in All's Well, Margaret in Richard III and Mistress Overdone in Measure for Measure. She has appeared with Lyric West in Wit
(Vivian Bearing), the Gloucester Stage Company in Faith Healer (Grace), Molly Sweeney (Molly),Happy Days (Winnie) and Not I (Mouth); at
the American Repertory Theatre in No Exit ( Inez ), Ivanov (Babakina), Mother Courage (Yvette), Lysistrata (Belphragia),
The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Soot), and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), the Lyric Stage Company in The Goat (Stevie),
Private Lives (Amanda) , Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Kath), Sideman (Terry), and The Heiress (title role) and Mercy Seat (Abby).
In 1998 she was directed by Eric Engel in the award-winning production Sing Me to Sleep by John Kuntz and again in 1999
in Kuntz's Miss Price. Film credits include: Mermaids, Malice, and Next Stop Wonderland. Television: Science Court
(three seasons ABC) and co-creator and star of The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special for FX.
In January 2005, she premiered her new work "Wigged OUT!" with Leslie Dillen's "Dressed UP!" directed by
Karen MacDonald for which she received the IRNE for Best Solo Performance 2005.
Directing Credits include: Lone Star, Laundry & Bourbon ( Alley Theatre,) Lady and the Clarinet ( New Ehrlich),
I’m Not Rappaport ( Gloucester Stage Co.), Jake’s Women (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), and Right You Are If You Think You Are (U of Illionois).
Teaching credits : UNCA, U of Illinois, Adjunct Professor of Acting U Mass Lowell and Actors' Shakespeare Project Teachers' Institute.
Ms Plum is a cum laude graduate of Boston University. She is married to actor Richard Snee.
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