Paul Mullin

Paul Mullin’s dramatic innovations have flourished in productions across the U.S., exploring subjects ranging from personal nuclear catastrophe to the uncelebrated underbelly of American History.  His play Louis Slotin Sonata won the L. A. Drama Critics Award, and was read by invitation for scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as well as the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara.

Mullin’s most recent full-length, The Ten Thousand Things, is inspired by the Clock of the Long Now, and designed like the clock to last for ten millennia.   The Ten Thousand Things premiered at Washington Ensemble Theatre in April, 2008, showing for a total of 19 ticks out of a possible 10,000.  A future tour to Washington State colleges is planned, as well as a San Francisco production, and ideally a performance at the site of the clock's construction in the remote mountains of Eastern Nevada.

The Sequence, dramatizes the real-life race to decode the human genome.  The script was originally commissioned by the  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and was read in April, 2005 at George Mason University under the auspices of the BioIT Coaltion, with one of the central characters, Francis Collins, in attendance.   It is slated to make its world premiere on October 11, 2008 in Pasadena, California produced by the Theatre @ Boston Court.

In addition to writing for the stage, Mullin has participated in several film and television projects.  He wrote and starred in the independent feature film Hitting The Ground, which won the Gold Prize at the Houston WorldFest and later played in rotation on the Sundance Channel.  He has also provided scripts for several nationally recognized documentaries, including The Rainiers and Treasures Of The World, which aired on PBS.

Paul Mullin was recently honored with the 2008 Genius Award in Theater by Seattle's preeminent alternative weekly newspaper, the Stranger.  He lives in Seattle with his wife and two young sons.

To hear Paul Mullin on NPR, click here.

To hear Paul Mullin on Seattle's local NPR affiliate discussing Louis Slotin Sonata, click here.

To hear Paul Mullin on Seattle's local NPR affiliate discussing The Ten Thousand Things, click here.

As of September 2008, Mullin joined the unofficial company of theatre artists who have set for themselves the goal of making Seattle the world-class theatre city that it has long held the potential to be.  To that end, he sits on the boards of Rain City Projects and Our American Theater.  If you have ideas on how the theatre community in Seattle and the greater Northwest can reach this goal within five years, please contact him at the address listed at the bottom of this page.

You can contact Paul at paulmullin ampersand ATT dot net