Paul Tinto (Class of 2010)

From the age of fourteen, Paul regularly took part in the annual Arran One-Act Drama Festival and throughout those years was the winner of awards such as ‘Best Leading Actor in a Junior Play’ and ‘Best Moment in Theatre’.

Paul took part in many youth music theatre and community productions while growing up on Arran, occasionally in association with professional companies.  Productions at this time included; Aladdin (Aladdin), West Side Story (Tony), Seven Wives for Dracula (Dr Seward), The Inner Circle (Mark), Les Miserables (Marius) and Jamie the Saxt (Lord Lennox).

Paul also worked musically on the island, performing with bands, (guitar, piano and singing) at weddings, Burns suppers and regularly at his local church.

In 2005, Paul composed music for Robert Mclellan’s play, The Carlin Moth, performed for Arran’s McLellan Festival and in 2006 and worked behind the camera filming a new Scottish education pack about the playwright as well as providing the voice-over work.

Aside from his local junior drama group, Paul’s drama training began with off-island training with the National Youth Theatre and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ‘youth works’ summer schools.  As well as practicing classical texts and acting for screen, here he trained in audition technique gaining valuable skills that he would put to good effect in the summer of 2007, when he applied for the BA (Hons) Three-Year Professional Acting Course at LAMDA.

In his first year at the LAMDA Paul played Tim in Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill, Alceste in The Misanthrope by Molière, Brachiano in The White Devil, Haemon in Antigone by Sophocles, and in Easter 2008, performed in the chorus of Mark Ravenhill’s, The Odyssey (a One-act play of the Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat series), along with a select group of LAMDA students, at the National Theatre.

Most recently, Paul and his stage partner were awarded second place for 'Best fight' at LAMDA's annual Fight Night in June 2009 for their spectacular rapier duel on the MacOwen Theatre stage.

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