Paul Outlaw is a native of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He has lived in New England, California and Berlin, where he was active as (among other things) a bilingual singer (performing with the cult band Die Haut), composer, actor and director. He played the title role in Pepe Danquart's Schwarzfahrer (Black Rider), winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1994, which featured his band Snow Blind Twilight Ferries on the soundtrack.
Paul is the creator/co-creator of three one-person history plays, including Berserker, a meditation on Nat Turner and Jeffrey Dahmer, which received a Best of the Fringe Award for Best Male Dramatic Solo at the 2003 San Francisco Fringe Festival and was one of the productions named by the New York Sun as Best of the Fringe at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. Paul designed the sound for this and various other theater productions in Los Angeles, which he currently calls home.
New collaborators for music, theater and film projects, anywhere in the universe, always welcome.
Paul stars in WE PEDAL UPHILL, Roland Tec's tapestry of post-9/11 America, opened March 20th for a one-week run at the Cinema Village (22 E. 12th Street) in New York.
Arranged in 13 fictional vignettes, each unfolding in a different state, the movie slides smoothly from racism in Tennessee to election fraud in Ohio, from corporate greed in Oklahoma to railroad chicanery in Nebraska. The performances are across-the-board solid (most of the cast is theater-based), and although the quality of the segments varies, the thoughtfulness of the writing (by Roland Tec, who also directs) does much to atone for the monochromatic palette and rudimentary camerawork...Neither self-righteous nor bombastic, these wide-ranging mini-tales coast on a gently insistent tone of regret. Without pointing fingers or naming names, Mr. Tec reminds us that change does not happen overnight.
