Paul Barile

Paul Barile is a Chicago/Berwyn native. He’s a writer of plays, movies, short stories and poems, and this is his first novel.

Paul also works as an actor, musician, tour guide and educator.

He has been a well-known figure on the Chicago music and theatre scene for nearly 40 years.

Paul has written over 30 plays and many have been published. In the first three months of 2014 – he had three full-length plays published. He has had dozens of his plays produced in Chicago as well as Brooklyn, Arizona, London (England). His monologue “I’m 13” was featured in the recently published “Best Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15” published by Hal Leonard.

His nightlife writing has appeared in books such as “Hungry? Chicago” and “The Barfly’s Guide to Chicago’s Nightlife.”

He maintains a poetry blog as well as a flash fiction blog. Paul has produced dozens of play festivals (2000-2011) giving work to hundreds of local actors and writers.

Paul has also written the screenplays for several short films; “In the Garden” , “The Paper Boat” and “The Hustlin’ Shufflin’ Crew”, the last of of which were recently submitted to regional and national film festivals. His film “Prairie Melancholy” is in post production and “The Descending” is in pre-production.

Published plays:

Great Land - Off the Wall Plays - 2014

HomeGoing - Yesplays.com - 2014 

The Value of Horses - Great Stages Publishing - 2014 

The Bound Trilogy - Original Works Publis​hing - 2008