Paul Molnar

Paul Molnar is an award-winning actor and director. He is the Director of Theatre Performance and a tenured Associate Professor of Theatre at Independence Community College where he teaches acting, movement, stage combat, voice and directing. Before arriving in Kansas, Paul was an actor, director, movement consultant, fight choreographer and producer who was based in New York City for over twenty years.

Paul, along with his wife Dee, founded South Brooklyn Shakespeare, a 501(c)3 company devoted to bringing free Shakespeare and other Classic Works of Literature to the residents of South Brooklyn. Paul & Dee served as Co-Artistic Directors for six seasons. This company performed in several locations throughout Brooklyn and produced some of Shakespeare’s classics: Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Winter’s Tale.

As an actor, Paul has numerous professional credits: in New York City he did the Off-Broadway premier of Hot Mess with Max Crumm & Lucy DeVito, multiple productions with KEEN Company, Epiphany, Adobe, Tangent and Fifth Street Theatre. Regional credits include work with: Premier Stages, Asolo Rep, Vermont Stage, Lost Nation, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, New American Theatre and 12 Miles West Theatre. TV credits include: Law & Order, Law & Order SVU, Person of Interest, Film credits include: Sweet Sweet Baby & The Ones That Have Fallen. As a fight director Paul’s work has been featured Off-Broadway in: Party Face (Directed by Amanda Bearse & staring Hayley Mills), Roulette, Tape, Ghoul, work with DiCapo Opera, Ensemble Studio Theatre and the 47th Street Theatre. Other New York credits include movement coaching & fight chorography work at Fordham University, Queens College, MITF, and Keen Company where he was the Resident Company Fight Director. Regional movement & fight choreography credits: Buck's County Playhouse, Premiere Stages, Two River Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Second City (Detroit) & Asolo Rep.

Paul received his BFA from the University of Michigan where he was given the Albert A. Stanley Award for Distinguished Work during his time there and holds an MFA from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training where he was awarded The Martha and Foster Harmon Award for outstanding professional achievement as an actor. Paul has been a proud member of Actors Equity Association since 1998 and a member of SAG-AFTRA since 2011.