Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles and Berlin-based multidisciplinary performing artist. Spanning an array of mediums including text-based drama, physical theater,
performance art, spoken word, and American popular music, his works confront the web of societal constructs around race and gender and excavate the enduring legacies of
white supremacy and patriarchal violence—both physical and psychological—that mar the tapestry of Euro-American history.

Paul’s award-winning solo projects (under the
banner of OutlawPlay) and collaborations have been presented across the United States and abroad. Paul played the title role in Pepe Danquart’s Schwarzfahrer, winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Paul’s one-person play Berserker was published, along with an interview and critical essay, in the anthology Blacktino Queer Performance. His recent theater project, BBC (Big Black Cockroach), premiered in June 2024 at Los Angeles’ REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theater).

With Asher Hartman/Gawdafful National Theater: Annie Okay; See What Love the Father Has Given Us; The Florida Room/The Glass Bang; The Silver, the Black, the
Wicked Dance; Da Real Izzard Gizzard; Sorry, Atlantis: Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge; The Dope Elf; The Dope Elf: That Chick Judy; Organized Around the Erotics of Doing You In; Kay Whale; with Asher Hartman: The Late, Late Show: “Porphyria’s
Descent”; The Late, Late Show.

For more about Paul, visit outlawplay.com.