Nov 4, 2022
EPISODE SUMMARY
This week's episode is a conversation with Paul Barnes who
volunteered on Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign.
Paul wrote a fantastic book called "Paul for Pete". This
conversation is inspiring and encouraging, and is intended to be an
encouragement to get out to vote!
Conversation on (00:00)
Show Notes:
Paul Barnes is an award-winning freelance theatre director,
who has worked at most of America's leading regional theatre
companies, Shakespeare festivals, and university training
programs.
Paul was born and grew up on the east coast (Wilton,
Connecticut), but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when he was
going into the 8th grade. He graduated from Cubberley Senior High
School in Palo Alto and majored in theatre in college, completing
his degree and earning his California State Teaching Credential, at
Cal State Fullerton.
Paul taught high school English and theatre at Lincoln High in
Stockton, California, but left secondary teaching for romance and
life in the theatre, and was Education Director at the
Ashland, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and
Conservatory Director/Associate Artistic Direct at PCPA
Theaterfest in Santa Maria, California in the 70s, 80s, and
90s.
Paul founded two theatres: the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, here in
my hometown, Ashland, Oregon, and the Great River Shakespeare
Festival in Winona, Minnesota.
In 2019 Paul became involved in Pete Buttigieg's
campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential
nomination, first as a contributor, then as a successful grassroots
fundraiser, and finally as a member of Pee's Arts Policy Advisory
Committee. When Pete suspended his campaign in March 2020, Paul
made a lateral transfer to Joe Biden's Arts Policy Advisory
Committee, helping to shape arts policy for the Biden
campaign.
Becoming actively involved in Pete's campaign was an
inspiring and life-changing experience and proved the ideal
antidote for the fear and depression Paul felt during the
Trump years. Thanks to the encouragement of friends, he
published a memoir about his experience, Paul for Pete: Politics. Theatre. Life. One Man's
Adventures (or, How I Became a Septuagenarian Fanboy),
currently in its fourth printing, is soon to be released in
audiobook form. Although Pete's campaign is the spine and
throughline of the book, Paul for
Pete also delves into the work as a director, his travels in
America, and Pauls's life as an openly gay man in the last half of
the 20th/first part of the 21st centuries.
Paul makes his home in Ashland, Oregon with his partner of 47
years, actor-director Jim Edmondson.
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CREDITS
Production Support- Jeff Manildi
Intro and Outro music created by Ryan
Casata
