Welcome to the website of the actor Paul Thomas. A place where you can keep up-to-date on news of his current and future productions, see his CV, read Reviews and look at his Gallery, Showreels and Voicereels.

APPEARING NOW: Paul can currently be seen in a fun commercial for HSBC by Academy Award winning director Kevin MacDonald (THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, TOUCHING THE VOID, ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER). Paul plays the hero of this documentary-style advert - a Polish junior manager, completely out of his depth in India, trying to find out why his washing machine sales there are so high! VIEW IT HERE!

APPEARING NOW: The online radio drama A FRIEND IN ME is now available to download for free at the The Wireless Theatre Company website. In this two-hander, written by Rob Milliken and directed by Mariele Runacre Temple, Paul plays John - a 13 year old kid who meets a very strange girl, who seems to know him and who he thinks he knows too... This is an eerie and thought-provoking piece, download it now! Radio legend Nicholas Parsons has just become a patron of the Wireless Theatre Company.

JUST BEEN: Rehearsed Readings continue to be ever popular - this time Paul has just appeared in two plays produced by ScenePool and The London Playwrights Collective at the New Diorama Theatre. Showcasing two of the three finalist plays in the London Fringe Theatre Writing Award, Paul played the lead Anthony in Benedict Fogarty's DRAWING THE CURTAINS (which went on to win the award) and worked on his Polish accent for Aron in Emma Jowett's trilogy SNAP, CATCH, SLAM.

JUST BEEN: Amongst the excitement of Theatre 503's Olivier Award win - Paul has been working there again with The London Playwrights Collective. This time he played Earnshaw (a character reminiscent of Pike from DAD'S ARMY) in a rehearsed reading of WATERTON'S WILD MENAGERIE. Set in 1830s West Yorkshire, this half comedic, half poignant piece saw a group of out of work and hungry labourers visiting the home of the eccentric Charles Waterton. This was directed by Daniel Burgess and written by David Bottomley.

JUST BEEN: Paul has just been working with M.O.D. Productions at Tara Arts, on a new play based on Rudyard Kipling's JUST SO STORIES.
Working with Director Greta Clough the cast brought the script to life through a combination of acting, puppetry and creating original music.
A full scale production and national tour are currently being planned.

JUST BEEN: Rehearsed Readings seem to be popular at the moment and Paul has just performed in three. Firstly he performed the lead Andy McMullin in a reading of the short film comedy A DUCK CALLED SELMA. This was for The Media Lunch Club and part of their "Short Circuit" competition (judged by Sir Roger Moore) and was directed by established TV director Nick Hague. Then Paul took part in another Rehearsed Reading for The London Playwrights Collective at Theatre 503. Paul played the Lawyer in a three-hander called UN-ORGANISED CRIME. This was directed by Sarah Norman. Lastly, Paul performed in a selection of extracts from plays by George Bernard Shaw (e.g. Eugene Marchbanks in Candida and Leonard Charteris in The Philanderer), this time for Centurion Theatre Company. Entitled SHAW AND THE NEW WOMAN this was part of an illustrated lecture to The Shaw Society. These scenes were directed by Michael Sargent.

COMING UP: Due for release later this year, Paul recently shot Celestial Pictures' new Feature Film BADINAGE. This dark fairytale is set in a quasi-Georgian underworld where the brave combat through verbal wit and poetry. As the Dark Accountants, Paul makes a quirky double act with Jon Trenchard as the deadpan adjudicators of the contests. Both dressed in full top hats and tails, the duo look like a pair of undertakers who have stepped straight out of the world of Jack The Ripper!