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Paul Zimet
Paul Zimet is a playwright, director, actor, and teacher. Born and raised in New York City, he studied clarinet and voice at the High School of Music and Art, comparative literature at Columbia College, and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 1974, he has been the Artistic Director of The Talking Band, which creates original interdisciplinary works for the theater. Paul received the John Lippmann New Frontier Award, the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater, a Playwrights’ Center National McKnight Fellowship, playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a New Dramatists/Children’s Theatre Playground Project commission, and a Fulbright Fellowship. He received a 2003 Village Voice OBIE award for his direction of The Talking Band production of PAINTED SNAKE IN A PAINTED CHAIR by Ellen Maddow, and also three OBIE awards for his work with the Open Theater and the Winter Project, both directed by Joseph Chaikin. Paul is an Associate Professor of Theatre, and Chair of the Theatre Department at Smith College.