Director/Writer/Actor
Paul Tate
Paul is extremely proud to have clocked up over 2,000 performances in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other musical credits both in the West End and on Tour include: Nine, Cavalcade, Dick-Daredevil, Annie, Little Women, Follies, and the 50th Anniversary tour of The Boy Friend, where he was also resident Director.
Plays have included Twelfth Night, The Father, A Christmas Carol, The Cheeky Chappie, the final West End production of An Inspector Calls, and on television Paul has appeared in The Bill, Bergerac, Home To Roost, Winning Streak, Rag Dolly Anna, and both episodes of It’s Now Or Never.
He also performed in the spectacular Arena Operas Tosca, and Aida at Earls Court, the Miss Saigon ensemble in A Song For Life at Drury Lane, The Magnificent Golden Years of Musicals at The Palladium, and A Love Letter To Dan at The Novello Theatre.
In 2001 he founded Paul Tate Productions, which specialises in producing musicals and pantomime. He has so far produced and directed Little Shop of Horrors, Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie, Barnum, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and his own murder mystery play Well Hung, which he also performed in as a Psychic Detective called Miss Sharple! Paul directed and produced the highly acclaimed ‘sell out’ revival of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.
He is also a much sought after pantomime Dame, Director, and script writer, and has written Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Jack and The Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Aladdin for stars such as: Paul Daniels, Isla St. Clair, Jack Wild, Britt Ekland, Dominic Littlewood, performing alongside them, and also with Ruth Madoc, Nicholas Parsons, Bernie Clifton, Kathy Staff, and The Chuckle Brothers etc.
Paul has also directed the musicals Oliver! and The Wizard of Oz, and spent a terrific ten months as the understudy to Paravicini and Major Metcalf in the West End production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which has been running for 57 years, and is the world’s longest running play. He went on once as Paravicini, and fourteen times as Major Metcalf! Finger’s crossed for a return!
Last summer Paul played Harry in Michael Bogdanov’s acclaimed production of My Fair Lady in Wales. This pantomime season will see him playing one of the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella at the Beck Theatre, Hayes.
