Paul is drawn to stories with twisty moral undertones, set in our contemporary world, exploring how we choose to live, and the unexpected consequences. He has an appetite for creating series and serials set on human fault-lines.
As an actor he has often been on our screens, though screenwriting is his passion.
His award-winning play The Dead Wait was fuelled by his experience of being a young South African conscripted in the Angolan border war. Shortlisted for The Verity Bargate Award, and re-developed as a feature, this is under option to FilmAfrika.
Life in apartheid-era Cape Town, with a German refugee father, has given Paul plenty of fuel on tough choices. His powerful screenplay Anna’s Story, adapted from a real-life experience, tells of a Czech-Jewish woman surviving pregnancy while incarcerated in a death camp. Selected for the prestigious 2018 Brit-List, and commissioned by Ecosse Films. His screenplay, Almost Heaven, won the Nashville International Best Feature Award.
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TV credits
UNDER THE KNIFE (WEB)
Commissioned treatment (2019)
PRIME EVIL (BBC TV)
Commissioned treatment for Waking The Dead
THE WOLF AND PETER (Elli Jason)
Commissioned treatment (2007)
Film credits
ANNA’S STORY (Ecosse Films)
Feature commissioned by Ecosse based on extraordinary events in the life of a Czech woman who survived four death camps during WW2 – who drew strength from a most unusual source.
This screenplay made it to The Brit List, the prestigious annual survey of British film executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays.
THE DEAD WAIT (Film Council/Moonstone/Trademark)
Commissioned screenplay, (2017)
THE KISS (New Sparta Films)
Commissioned screenplay, (2015/2016)
PLAYOFF (Egoli Tossell Films)
Dialogue polish. (2013)
THE FIGHTING PRINCE (Focus Features/Completion)
Commissioned screenplay (2008/9)
K – THE ART OF LOVE (Kasander Films)
Commissioned screenplay (2007)
SAMMY GOING SOUTH (FilmAfrika)
Commissioned screenplay (2006/7)
ALMOST HEAVEN Egoli-Tossell Films, Berlin
Co-wrote (Released 2005/6.)
(Nashville International Best Feature Award 2006)
WHITE HART LANE (Red And Black Films)
Commissioned treatment (2006)
THE MAN WHO GAVE THE BEATLES AWAY (Octagon Films Dublin)
Commissioned screenplay (2005)
MUKIWA (Kudu Films)
Commissioned screenplay/page one rewrite (2004)
THE IMPRESSIONIST (October Films/The Film Council)
Commissioned screenplay (2003)
THE BLACKNESS IN MAGIC (Egoli-Tossell Films, Berlin)
Commissioned screenplay (2002)
THE BLOOD OF ADONIS (Milesian Films)
Commissioned screenplay (1995)
FROZEN IMAGE (Milesian Films)
Commissioned screenplay (1985)
Radio credits
THE DEAD WAIT (BBC Radio 4/ West Deutscher’s Rundfunk)
(90 mins) dir Andy Jordan.
DREAMING UP LAURA (BBC Radio 4/ West Deutscher’s Rundfunk)
(90 mins) dir Andy Jordan.
THE SONG OF MY FATHER (BBC Radio 4/ ABC Perth & WDR)
(60 mins) dir Andy Jordan.
WHERE’S THE BULL? (LBC Radio)
Winner – London Writers’ Festival,
Directed by Richard Shannon
Chosen for TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase)
THE WOLF AND PETER (BBC Radio 4)
Short story. Read by Paul Herzberg, dir Andy Jordan
THE CRACKWALKER (BBC Radio 4)
Short story – read by Phil Daniels, dir Andy Jordan
BOGUS ((LBC Radio/IRDP)
(45 min) radio play
Shortlisted for Edith Ruddick Award 1998
Theatre credits
THE DEAD WAIT
Nominated: Best New Play/ Production/ Perf By Actor (won) Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, Shortlisted: Verity Bargate Award.
Park Theatre (dir Joe Harmston) Royal Exchange 2002, dir Jacob Murray. Market Theatre Joburg / Grahamstown – dir Clare Stopford.
METROPOLIS KABARETT
Writer-in-Residence for opening of the Royal National Theatre’s cabaret show
SWEET LIKE SUGA
Old Red Lion Theatre, London, dir by Andy Jordan
Also produced by Bristol Express, Centaur Theatre Montreal, Theatre 2000 Ottawa, dir by Maurice Podbrey and Arena Theatre Cape Town
BE BOP THE RULER
Nominated: Time Out Awards, 1991
Finborough Theatre London (Composed/wrote/ prod/ dir).
THE MOTH
Commissioned monologue for Elysium Theatre for the internet.
Other credits
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